. The bee and white ants, their manners and habits; with illustrations of animal instinct and intelligence. Bees; Instinct; Termites. THE BEE, 108. When a young bee, after its final metamorphosis, has issued from the cell, the nui'sea crowd round it, carefully brushing it, giving it nourishment and showing it the way through the hive. Others meanwhile are occupied in cleaning the cell from which it has issued and putting it in order to receive another egg if it be stUl large enough, and if not, to receive a store of honey. The young bee is not sufficiently strong to fly on the first day. It is
. The bee and white ants, their manners and habits; with illustrations of animal instinct and intelligence. Bees; Instinct; Termites. THE BEE, 108. When a young bee, after its final metamorphosis, has issued from the cell, the nui'sea crowd round it, carefully brushing it, giving it nourishment and showing it the way through the hive. Others meanwhile are occupied in cleaning the cell from which it has issued and putting it in order to receive another egg if it be stUl large enough, and if not, to receive a store of honey. The young bee is not sufficiently strong to fly on the first day. It is only on the morrow, after being well fed and brushed down by the nurses, and having taken a walk from time to time through the combs, that it ventures on the wing. 109. The drone passes three days in the egg, and continues to receive the care of the nurses as a grub until the tenth day, when it passes into the state of nymph, and is sealed up in its cell by the. Fig. 47. nurses with a very convex cover. As already stated, the drone grub being larger than that of the worker, the cell assigned to it is proportionately more capacious, and the cover by which as a nymph it is shut up is much more convex externally. A piece of comb consisting of drone cells is shown in fig. 47. Some cells, o, o, o, being those from which the perfect insect has issued, are open and empty. Near the borders of the Comb, where local circumstances render it necessary to modify the principles of its architecture so as to accommodate the cells to their position in the hive, may be â 5?. 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 Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859. London, Lockwood & co
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