Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . the spring founds hercolony by laying up pellets of pol-len in some subterranean mouse-nest or in a stump, and the young,hatching, gradually eat the pollen,and when it is exhausted and theyare fully fed they spin an ovalcylindrical cocoon. The first broodare workers, the second males andfemales. The partly hexagonal,cells of the stingless bees of thetropics (Melipona) are built of waxor clay, while the hexagonal cells ofthe honey-bee are made by the beesfrom wax secreted by minute sub-cutaneous glands
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . the spring founds hercolony by laying up pellets of pol-len in some subterranean mouse-nest or in a stump, and the young,hatching, gradually eat the pollen,and when it is exhausted and theyare fully fed they spin an ovalcylindrical cocoon. The first broodare workers, the second males andfemales. The partly hexagonal,cells of the stingless bees of thetropics (Melipona) are built of waxor clay, while the hexagonal cells ofthe honey-bee are made by the beesfrom wax secreted by minute sub-cutaneous glands in the the cells are hexagonal,they are not built with mathemati-cal exactitude, the sides not alwaysbeing of the same length and thick-Less. The cells made for the young orlarval drones of the honey-bee arelarger than those of the workers,and the single queen cell is large mass freshly deposited by the bee. and irregularly size.—After Emerton. Drone-eggs are supposed by Dzier- zon and Siebold not to be fertilized, while the o^ueen-bee is the only. FIG. 226.—Nest of Andrena. g, level ofground; a, first made cell, contain- ORDER HYMENOPTERA. 177 animal which can produce either sex at will. Certain worker-eggshave been known to transform into queen-bees. On the other hand,worker-bees may in rare cases lay drone-eggs. The egg from which the queen develops is like that of a worker,the difference arising in larval life, owing to a change of treatmentof the larva by the nurses, its food, derived from pollen by digestion,*being different from that provided for the worker. The first or oldqueen, when the population of the hive becomes excessive, leaves thehive to establish a new colony. This is called swarming. The queenis very fertile, having the power of laying between 2000 and 3000 eggsa day, or two eggs per minute for weeks in succession. Cheshirestates that the larva feeds four days, moulting probably six times;and finally, when it stops
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