. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Vol. XIV JANUARY, 1904 No. I COMB BUILDING. An Analysis of Cause and Effect in Relation to the Construction of Drone and Worker Cells. By W. W. McXeal. NATURE has decreed that every colony of bees shall have a con- stituency of (1) a queen; (2) worker-bees; (3) drone bees. She has ordained each of a kind to a particular mission in life: the (lueen to populate the hive; the worker to gattJer honey and build the honey-comb; and the drone to beautify the young queen. To insure this order of insect life it is necessary for the bees to build comb suita
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Vol. XIV JANUARY, 1904 No. I COMB BUILDING. An Analysis of Cause and Effect in Relation to the Construction of Drone and Worker Cells. By W. W. McXeal. NATURE has decreed that every colony of bees shall have a con- stituency of (1) a queen; (2) worker-bees; (3) drone bees. She has ordained each of a kind to a particular mission in life: the (lueen to populate the hive; the worker to gattJer honey and build the honey-comb; and the drone to beautify the young queen. To insure this order of insect life it is necessary for the bees to build comb suitable for all propagating purposes. That there are certain agencies whii Ji preclude the building of Avorker-comb and intensify intei'est in the produc- tion of drone comb, is beyond conjec- ture. A knowledge of those influences and the ability to avoid tlieiu, [jrac- ticaJly makes a master of bees. The building of v,'Oi"-ier-coinb signi- fies contentment, but drone-comb im- plies that there is a feeling of inse- or one of dissatisfaction; and, therefore, it often stands a monuiuent to iJu' caprices of a romantic <iueen. The mere presence of the ouee more clearly demonstrat- ed. But. do the bees build drone-comb at that time? No. It is only when the hive has been partly filled with worker-comb that local conditions arise to divert, or, the desire to swarm again, causing a ferment among them, do they build 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 Falconer, N. Y. : W. T. Falconer Manfg. Co.
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