. Elementary biology, animal and human. Biology. 40 ANIMAL BIOLOGY 31. Other duties of worker bees. â Bees, we have also learned (28), bring in large quantities of pollen packed in the pollen baskets of the hind legs, and in gathering pollen a considerable amount clings to the head and other parts of the body. Worker bees also bring in from the buds of trees a brown, gummy substance called bee glue or prdpolis which they use to close up crevices in the inside of the hive. In most hives, too, certain bees seem to be detailed to act as soldiers to keep out individuals from another swarm or other
. Elementary biology, animal and human. Biology. 40 ANIMAL BIOLOGY 31. Other duties of worker bees. â Bees, we have also learned (28), bring in large quantities of pollen packed in the pollen baskets of the hind legs, and in gathering pollen a considerable amount clings to the head and other parts of the body. Worker bees also bring in from the buds of trees a brown, gummy substance called bee glue or prdpolis which they use to close up crevices in the inside of the hive. In most hives, too, certain bees seem to be detailed to act as soldiers to keep out individuals from another swarm or other marauders which might raid their stores of food. During the busy summer season a worker usually lives only a month or two. Certainly enough has been said to convince any one that a bee colony is a wonderful social community, organized more com- pletely, so far as division of labor is concerned, than many a human conmiunity. Is it a monarchy ruled by the queen, or a democracy controlled by the workers? The latter is more probably the case. Yet we can hardly imagine how the thousands of individuals can work together in such a helter-skelter way and accomplish such wondrous results.' larva 32. Life history of the honeybee. â The eggs of the bee are tiny white objects, shaped more or less like a banana. A single egg is fastened by the queen mother at the bottom of each cell in the young larva iuat hatched from egg ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^j,jg_ 29). At the end of three days the egg hatches into a mi- nute footless grub or larva (Fig. 29) which is fed for the first few days on rich food, produced in the stomach of the. Fig. â stages in life history of honeybee. (Cheshire). 1 For interesting descriptions of the work carried on in a beehive see "A, B, C of Bee Culture," by A. I. and E. R. Root. '. 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 pe
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