. The bee-keeper's guide : or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. OR, MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 185 be separated by dissolving the wax ; which may be done by putting- it in boiling alcohol, or, better still, by use of the solar wax-extractor. Such comb need not be discarded, for if com- posed of worker-cells it is still very valuable for breeding pur- poses, and should not be destroyed till the cells are too small for long service, which will not occur till after many years of use. The function, then, of the wax, is to make comb and Botiey-Comb Coral.—Original. caps for the honey-cells, and, combin
. The bee-keeper's guide : or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. OR, MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 185 be separated by dissolving the wax ; which may be done by putting- it in boiling alcohol, or, better still, by use of the solar wax-extractor. Such comb need not be discarded, for if com- posed of worker-cells it is still very valuable for breeding pur- poses, and should not be destroyed till the cells are too small for long service, which will not occur till after many years of use. The function, then, of the wax, is to make comb and Botiey-Comb Coral.—Original. caps for the honey-cells, and, combined with pollen, to form queen-cells (Fig. 78, d) and caps for the brood-cells. A very common fossil found in many parts of the Eastern and Northern United States is, from its appearance, often called petrified honey-comb. We have many such specimens in our museum. In some cases the cells are hardly larger than a pin-head ; in others a quarter of an inch in diameter. These (Figs. 79, 80) are not fossil honey-comb as many are led to believe, though the resemblance is so striking that no won-. 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 Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago : York
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