. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. eresting duties as wax-making, comb-building,food-storing, egg-laying,nursing, etc. An obser-vation hive may be ob-tained from a dealer inbeehives or be made outof an ordinary hive byany carpenter or ingeni-ous boy. It should beset up in the can be kept in theschoolyard, or even better,in the schoolroom for a pane ofglass in a window a thinwooden pane in which iscut a narrow horizontalopening, the size of theregular hive the latter is too broadit may be covered overat the ends.
. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. eresting duties as wax-making, comb-building,food-storing, egg-laying,nursing, etc. An obser-vation hive may be ob-tained from a dealer inbeehives or be made outof an ordinary hive byany carpenter or ingeni-ous boy. It should beset up in the can be kept in theschoolyard, or even better,in the schoolroom for a pane ofglass in a window a thinwooden pane in which iscut a narrow horizontalopening, the size of theregular hive the latter is too broadit may be covered overat the ends. Set the ob-servation hive on a table Fl^ ^est. of bumble-btee> bus sp., showing opening at surface Or box against the window Of the ground and brood-cells inSO that its Opening COrre- cavity underneath. (Adapted from sponds with that in the McCook-) window. Or better, place it about six or eight inches fromthe window and build an enclosed broad shallow tunnel,covered above with glass, connecting the two the glass top of the tunnel lay a sheet of dark card-. MUTUAL AID AND COMMUNAL LIFE 431 board, which can be simply lifted off whenever it is desiredto see what is going on at the entrance. Here can beseen the ventilating, the alertness of the sentinels andguards, the killing of drones, the constant arrival of pollen-laden food-gatherers, etc. But observations may well begin in the field. Note thegathering of flower pollen (fig. 220). \Yhere does the beeput the pollen as it collects it? Why doesnt the pollenfall off? Kill a bee in a killing-bottle and examine care-
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