Archive image from page 60 of The illustrated Australasian bee manual. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the 'New Zealand bee manual' greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten CUbiodiversity1228471 Year: 1886 ( BEE MANUAL. 41 The queen is indispensable to the prosperity of the hive. She is the only perfectly developed female, and lays all the eggs, of which she can, on occasions, produce two to three thousand in twenty-four hours. Without her the colony would soon dwindle down and die out
Archive image from page 60 of The illustrated Australasian bee manual. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the 'New Zealand bee manual' greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten CUbiodiversity1228471 Year: 1886 ( BEE MANUAL. 41 The queen is indispensable to the prosperity of the hive. She is the only perfectly developed female, and lays all the eggs, of which she can, on occasions, produce two to three thousand in twenty-four hours. Without her the colony would soon dwindle down and die out, or be attacked and killed for the sake of its stores, as, after being deprived of their queen, the workers generally (unless they are in a position to rear a new one, as will be seen further on) lose the disposition to defend themselves and their home. The queen is not provided with the special organisation which enables the workers to gather honey and pollen and to secrete wax. She is furnished with a sting, which, however, she very rarely uses, except in a struggle with a rival queen. When she has been once impreg- nated, and has taken her place in a hive, she never leaves it except to accompany a swarm. Her term of life may extend Fig. 4.—THE aUEEN. to four years at least, and during that time she may lay many hundreds of thousands of eggs ; but she is considered to be in her prime in the second year, and is seldom very prolific after the third. She can be easily distinguished from the other bees, and be recognised even by the most inexperienced from the following description :—Her body is not so bulky as that of a drone, though longer ; it is considerably more tapering than that of either drone or worker; her wings are much shorter in proportion than those of the other bees; the under part of her body is of a lighter and the upper of a darker colour than the worker's; her movements are
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