Archive image from page 29 of Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee CUbiodiversity1154323 Year: 1886 ( i6 BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. settling, in a great number of instances, show us that they are carrying on their hind legs relatively large masses of coloured material, which is most generally some shade of yellow or orange, although crimson, green, and even black, may be seen. This material, considered by the ancients to be wax, and called by Reau
Archive image from page 29 of Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee CUbiodiversity1154323 Year: 1886 ( i6 BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. settling, in a great number of instances, show us that they are carrying on their hind legs relatively large masses of coloured material, which is most generally some shade of yellow or orange, although crimson, green, and even black, may be seen. This material, considered by the ancients to be wax, and called by Reaumur himself la cire brute (crude-wax), we shall, in due course, learn to be pollen, which has been gathered from the anthers, or male organs of blooms, by a most 'beautiful set of apparatus, to be hereafter examined. Opening our hive Fig. 2.—Bar Frame of Hive. by the removal of the top cover, so as to expose our stock (as we commonly denominate a colony of bees in an established condition), and in order that we may learn the behaviour of those that are returning from their aerial voyages, we find it filled with combs, each one of which is a tolerably flat slab, about iin. in thickness, fixed in, and mainly hanging from, the upper side or top bar of such a frame as is shown at Fig. 2. These frames are so placed and arranged that each may be easily lifted out with its attached comb, which has, in turn, its face £in. distant from
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