. A first book of zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. 1 62 ZOOLOGY «levolop into <,uecnH. Many ckk« remain unfertilized and Kive to drone, or «. These have larKe ojTu. pro<luce the substance with which a „ueen fertilizes her eg^n. When the food of the hive is becoming Hcarce. viz, at the end of the summer, the workers economize by RettinK rid of the dronos-since the latter are lazy and do no work. The hapless males are, in fact, ejected from the hive and left to die. An unfertilized t jj? develops into a drone in twenty-four days. Workers.— As in other com
. A first book of zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. 1 62 ZOOLOGY «levolop into <,uecnH. Many ckk« remain unfertilized and Kive to drone, or «. These have larKe ojTu. pro<luce the substance with which a „ueen fertilizes her eg^n. When the food of the hive is becoming Hcarce. viz, at the end of the summer, the workers economize by RettinK rid of the dronos-since the latter are lazy and do no work. The hapless males are, in fact, ejected from the hive and left to die. An unfertilized t jj? develops into a drone in twenty-four days. Workers.— As in other communities, the workers form the mainstay of the hive. These little creatures hatch from fertilized cKJfs, beinj? fed for the first five days on royal jelly, and later upon a mixture of pollen, honey, and water. Adult woiK- ers seal up in celli the fill-grown. FlO |.Ies "f Worker Hci larvjB, the latter spin a cocoon ami "pupate," become motionless pupae, cmcrjjin;,^ after 21 days from the time of hatching as perfect insects, or imagos, by biting their way out into the hive. These individuals are really females which do not lay eggs, because they are sterile- they are specially adapted for collecting food and for constructing the 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 Burlend, T. H; Cornish, George A. (George Augustus), 1872-1960. Toronto : Macmillan
Size: 1299px × 1924px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectzoology, bookyear1915
