. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. ES. 21 speedier fate through intruders, such as wax-moth larva1, robber bees,wasps, etc., which* its weakness would prevent its repelling longer;or cold is very likely to finish such a decimated colony, especially asthe bees, because queeuless, are uneasy and do not cluster compactly. The loss of queens while flying out to mate is evidently one of theprovisions in nature to prevent bees from too great multiplication, forwere there no such checks they would soon become a pest in the the other hand, the risk to the queen is not usel
. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. ES. 21 speedier fate through intruders, such as wax-moth larva1, robber bees,wasps, etc., which* its weakness would prevent its repelling longer;or cold is very likely to finish such a decimated colony, especially asthe bees, because queeuless, are uneasy and do not cluster compactly. The loss of queens while flying out to mate is evidently one of theprovisions in nature to prevent bees from too great multiplication, forwere there no such checks they would soon become a pest in the the other hand, the risk to the queen is not uselessly increased, forshe mates bat once during her life. BEE PRODUCTS AND ORGANS USED IN THEIR PREPARATION. Pollen and honey form the food of honey bees and their developingbrood. Both of these are plant products which are only modified soine-what by the manipulation to which they are subjected by the bees andare then stored in waxen cells if not wanted for immediate use. Pollen,the fertilizing dust of flowers, is carried home by the bees in small pel-. Fig. 7.—Modifications of the legs of different bees: A, Apis: a, wax pincer and outer view of hindle<i; b, inner aspect of wax pincer and leg; c, compound hairs holding grains of pollen; (/. anteriorleg, showing antenna cleaner; e, spur on tibia of middle leg. B, Melipona : f. peculiar group of spinesat apex of tibia of hind leg; g, inner aspect of wax pincer and first joint of tarsus. C, Bomba*:h, wax pincer; ?, inner view of same and first joint of tarsus—all enlarged. (From Insect Life.) lets held in basket-like depressions on each of the hind legs. The hairscovering the whole surface of the bees body are more or less service-able in enabling the bee to collect pollen, but those on the under sideof the abdomen are most likely to get well dusted, and the rows ofhairs, nine in number, known as pollen brushes, located on the innersurface of the first tarsal joint (fig. 7, &), are then brought into use tobrush out this poll
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