. Bees; their habits, management and treatment. Bees. BEES. muniiy), another important department of the commissariat of the hive is attended to in a no less exempUiry manner. There will be young ones in the hive by and by; how are they to be fed ? " Why, with bee-bread, to be sm-e," answers some old nurse-bee of the hive; and so, having*, we may suppose, received their instructions, the bees set out to collect pollen as well as honey, from wherever they can find it. If you watch the bees as they return to the hive, you will scarcely see one of them without a little ball or pellet of
. Bees; their habits, management and treatment. Bees. BEES. muniiy), another important department of the commissariat of the hive is attended to in a no less exempUiry manner. There will be young ones in the hive by and by; how are they to be fed ? " Why, with bee-bread, to be sm-e," answers some old nurse-bee of the hive; and so, having*, we may suppose, received their instructions, the bees set out to collect pollen as well as honey, from wherever they can find it. If you watch the bees as they return to the hive, you will scarcely see one of them without a little ball or pellet of farina on each of its hinder-leg-s, at the part marked a in the accompanying; engraving* (Fig*. 10). Fi^. The hinder leg of the Worker-bee ; a, the part on which the pollen is carried. Of the six legs of the bee, the four hinder leg-s are used for collecting pollen. On each of them one joint is so thickly covered with thick and highly elastic hairs, that by using these joints as brushes, the bee is enabled to brush the pollen from the stamens. From these legs the pollen is transferred to the fore pair of legs, which, by help of the jaws, knead it into a compact mass. This mass is then placed on the hinder legs, where it is defended from falling b}^ a triangular groove edged and covered with thick hairs, which form, together with this groove, a kind of basket, which may be often seen so heavily laden, that it appears almost im- possible for the little creature to sustain itself in the air,. 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 Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. London, New York, G. Routledge and Sons
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