. Elementary entomology. Entomology. drones, but for the queen cell a royal jelly, which is excreted from the mouths of the workers and is very nutritious. Any worker egg may be developed into a queen at the desire of the workers by enlarging the cell and feed- ing the larva with this royal jelly. In the spring new queens appear in the colony, which are defended from the old queen by the workers, when the old queen, with many of her subjects, forms a new swarm and goes off to start a new colony, thus insuring the multiplication and continuance of the spe- cies. The comb is made of wax, and is
. Elementary entomology. Entomology. drones, but for the queen cell a royal jelly, which is excreted from the mouths of the workers and is very nutritious. Any worker egg may be developed into a queen at the desire of the workers by enlarging the cell and feed- ing the larva with this royal jelly. In the spring new queens appear in the colony, which are defended from the old queen by the workers, when the old queen, with many of her subjects, forms a new swarm and goes off to start a new colony, thus insuring the multiplication and continuance of the spe- cies. The comb is made of wax, and is constructed in thin, hexagonal cells so as to use as little material as possible, for it takes twenty- one pounds of honey to make one pound of wax. To secure the wax, some of the workers gorge themselves with honey and hang in a curtainlike mass in the hive. In a day or so the wax commences to exude from the wax plates on the underside of the abdomen and is scraped off and used by other workers in construct- ing the comb. From the buds of various trees, particularly the poplar, they collect a sort of resin, called propolis, which is used for cementing crevices in the hive. The. Fig. 436. Legs of the honey-bee .-/, left front leg of worker (anterior view), show- ing position of notch (M) of antenna cleaner on base of first tarsal joint (/ Tar) and of clos- ing spine (cc) on end of tibia (77^) ; B, left hind-leg of worker (anterior view), showing the pollen-basket (67') on outer surface of tibia (Ti) ; C, inner view of first tarsal joint of hind- leg of worker, showing rows of pollen-gather- ing hairs and the so-called " wax ; (After Snodgrass, United States Department of Agriculture). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sanderson, Dwight, 1878-1944; Jackson, C. F. (Cicero Floyd),
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