. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. BEES. 56 side 100 worker-cells to the square inch of surface (Figs. 2 and 3). The workei'^ more slender than house-fiies, though longer-bodied, are blue-black in color, with the anterior third of the abdomen brip;hi. ? J"— -^ KIG. 2.—WORKER-CICLLS OF TINY 1-^^ ! ' 1 \N HONEY- BEE (apis florea); natural size. orange. Colonies of these bees accumulate so little surplus honey as to give no hope that their cultivation would be profi
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. BEES. 56 side 100 worker-cells to the square inch of surface (Figs. 2 and 3). The workei'^ more slender than house-fiies, though longer-bodied, are blue-black in color, with the anterior third of the abdomen brip;hi. ? J"— -^ KIG. 2.—WORKER-CICLLS OF TINY 1-^^ ! ' 1 \N HONEY- BEE (apis florea); natural size. orange. Colonies of these bees accumulate so little surplus honey as to give no hope that their cultivation would be profitable. GIANT BEES OF INDIA. {Apis dorsata, Fab.) A few years ago a great deal used to be said regarding the East Indian "giant" honej'-bees, Ains dorsata, and the possi- bilities of liaving them imported and domes- ticated in this country. Much truth and nonsense have evidently been circulated in regard to them. Mr. Benton, having been in their native land, gives us something here that can be relied on. « This large bee, which might not inappropriately be styled the Giant East-Indian bee, has its home in the far East—both on the continent of Asia and the adja- cent islands. There are probably several varieties of this species, more or less marked, and very likely Apis zona/a, Guer., of the Philippine Islands, reported to be even larger than Apis dorsata, will prove on fur- ther investigation to be only a variety of the latter. All the varieties of these bees build huge combs of very pure wax—often 5 to 6 feet in length and 3 to 4 feet in width, which they attach to overhanging ledges of rocks or to large limbs of lofty trees in the primitive forest jungles. When attached to the limbs of trees they are built singly, and present much the same appearance as those of the tiny East - Indian bee, shown in the accompanying figure (Fig. 3). The Giant bee, however, quite in contradistinction to the other species of apis mentioned here, does not con- struct larger cell
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