. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. BEES. 40 BEES. larvse. They thrive ;nul grow very nqiiclly oil theii- bread-aiKl-iiiUk <liet, as you will see if you look at them otten. They will move thau (louhle in size in a siugle half-day. and in the short space of 7 days they will liave Si'owu from a mere speck to the size of a full-grown bee, or so as to completely lill the cell. This seems almost incredible, but there they are, right before your eyes. I presume it is owing to the highly concentrat- ed natiue of this same "l)read-a
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. BEES. 40 BEES. larvse. They thrive ;nul grow very nqiiclly oil theii- bread-aiKl-iiiUk <liet, as you will see if you look at them otten. They will move thau (louhle in size in a siugle half-day. and in the short space of 7 days they will liave Si'owu from a mere speck to the size of a full-grown bee, or so as to completely lill the cell. This seems almost incredible, but there they are, right before your eyes. I presume it is owing to the highly concentrat- ed natiue of this same "l)read-and-milk" food that the workers are so constantly giv- ing them, that they grow so rapidly. If you take the comb away from the bees for a little while you will see the larvjc oi)ening their mouths to be fed. like a nest of young birds, for all the 1 2 4 T) 7 18 FKOM THE EGG TO THE BEE. The figures underneath are inteiuled to represent the age in days. First is the larva just as it has broken the egg-shell on the third day ; next, the larva two days old. During the fourth and fifth days they grow very rapidly, but it is difficult to fix any pre- cise mark in regard to the size. On the sev- enth day the larva has straightened himself out, and the worker-bees have capped him over. I have made a pretty accurate exper- iment on this point, and it was just six days and seven hours after tlie first egg hatched, when they got it completely capped over. Just when they begin to have legs and eyes, I do not know, but I have found that the wings are about the last part of the work. We are all of us too ignorant, by far, on this matter, and 1 suggest that we set to work and investigate the matter thm-oughly. The eggs of tlie connnon fowl have been broken, and drawings made of the embryo, every day from the 1st to the 21st. ("an we not do as mudi for the science of apiculture y After the larva- are 7 days old, or lietwccn 10 and 11 days from llie time when the egg was la
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