. The gardens, poultry, and bees; embracing. Gardening; Poultry; Bees. TRE BEE. 139 BEES. THEIR HABITS AEB MANAGEMENT. THREE CLASSES OF BEESâThe ftuecn Bee is the sovereign, and lit- erally the prolific parent of all her subjects. She is the sole monarch. Her body is longer, larger, and more pointed than that of the others, and her wings are much, shorter than theirs, hardly reaching beyond her mid^jif whereas those of the others cover the entire body ; her belly and legs are of a deep golden color, and the latter are not furnished with the little brushes which those of the workers have, to he
. The gardens, poultry, and bees; embracing. Gardening; Poultry; Bees. TRE BEE. 139 BEES. THEIR HABITS AEB MANAGEMENT. THREE CLASSES OF BEESâThe ftuecn Bee is the sovereign, and lit- erally the prolific parent of all her subjects. She is the sole monarch. Her body is longer, larger, and more pointed than that of the others, and her wings are much, shorter than theirs, hardly reaching beyond her mid^jif whereas those of the others cover the entire body ; her belly and legs are of a deep golden color, and the latter are not furnished with the little brushes which those of the workers have, to help them in collecting the floury matter which they require for making honey. Anecdote of two fueen Bees,âThe queen bears no rival authority. If there should be a second queen, she is. either sent forth with an attend- ant swarm of colonists, or put to death by the other bees. "' Huber gives an account of a dnel between two queens, who, issuing from their nurseries in the same hive, rushed into deadly conflict, catch- ing each other with the teeth. As if they dreaded the fatal conse- quences to themselves, which would follow from unsheathing their darts, they had the prudence to separate at the height of their fury and fly away. But the other bees compelled them to decide the point of sovereignty on the spot, and then forced them to th^ contest again. This was done repeatedly, after intervals of breathing-time, until the stronger of the two, seizing the other by the wing, stabbed her to death. The queen-bee commences depositing her eggs when about five days old; during the heat of the season she lays from one hundred and fifty to two hundred eggs per day, and lays with little or no intermission from early spring to the middle of autumn. Brones.âThe second class of bees are the drones. They are bulkier /' in the body than either the queen or the working-bee. â X jr Their head is rounder, proboscis shorter, eyes fnller, an . additional articulation to the antennae, and no
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