. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. BEE-KEEPING. 437. found in the centre box in considerable quantities for the support of the young. 1307. It is a remarkable circumstance, that in a new colony the design of every comb is sketched out and the first rudiments laid by a single bee, •t\'hich, having disengaged itself from the swarm, commences the building of cells, which is then taken up by the other wax- makers, and subsequently by the nurse bees, which give the finishing stroke to the cells. Fig*. II. repres
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. BEE-KEEPING. 437. found in the centre box in considerable quantities for the support of the young. 1307. It is a remarkable circumstance, that in a new colony the design of every comb is sketched out and the first rudiments laid by a single bee, •t\'hich, having disengaged itself from the swarm, commences the building of cells, which is then taken up by the other wax- makers, and subsequently by the nurse bees, which give the finishing stroke to the cells. Fig*. II. represents the operation of laying the foundation of the cell, and fig. I. a cur- tain of working bees secreting the wax. The (iombs are attached to the roof and sides of the dwelling, the hives or boxes to the floors and roofs, and the cell-work of the combs varnished with a resinous, very tenacious, and transparent substance, termed propolis, which the bees collect fi-om various trees,—as from pines and other trees of the fir tribe according to some av;thors, but from the wild poplar according to Huber. 1308. There are three sorts of cells,—the first are for the larvae of workers, and for containing the honey ; the second are for the grubs of the males or drones (being considerably larger and more substantial, they usually appear near the bottom of the combs) ; the third are the cells for the females, of which there are usually three or fuur. One of these cells considerably exceeds in height the ordinary ones, and they are not interwoven with them, but suspended perpendicularl}', their sizes being nearly parallel to the mouths of the common cells, several of which are sacrificed to support them : they are of an oblong, spheroidal form, tapering gradually downwards. 1309. After the queen-bee has quitted her cell, it is destroyed by the workers, and its place occupied by a range of common cells. The queen deposits her eggs separately in the bottom of each cell. The egg is of a
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