. Beekeeping in Illinois. Bees; Bee culture. Bees : The Individual and the Colony 7 About 21 days after the egg was laid, an adult bee emerges from the comb by chewing a hole in the capping. She is soft and downy, and is not yet capable of making wax, stinging, or Hying. She will spend more than half her life doing hive duties in a rather flexible secjuence that is governed by the colony's needs. Usually this begins with cell cleaning and feeding and caring for the brood (the immature stages of bees) (Fig. 4). Other typical duties include comb building, removing debris, and guarding the entran
. Beekeeping in Illinois. Bees; Bee culture. Bees : The Individual and the Colony 7 About 21 days after the egg was laid, an adult bee emerges from the comb by chewing a hole in the capping. She is soft and downy, and is not yet capable of making wax, stinging, or Hying. She will spend more than half her life doing hive duties in a rather flexible secjuence that is governed by the colony's needs. Usually this begins with cell cleaning and feeding and caring for the brood (the immature stages of bees) (Fig. 4). Other typical duties include comb building, removing debris, and guarding the entrance (Fig. 5). Although we think of bees as being very industrious, the workers spend many hours patrolling the hive and sitting idle on combs. The patrolling probably serves to inform bees of the needs of the colony and also produces heat to main- tain the warmth of the brood nest where the young bees are reared. Young workers begin to fly from the hive when they are 15 to 20 days old. At first they take short flights in front of the colony, often. A young worker bee feeding a larva. (Fig. 4). 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 Jaycox, Elbert R. Urbana-Champaign, Ill. : University of Illinois
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