Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . ^ haveattained their full size, they spin a silken wall about them,which is strengthened by the old bees covering it with a thinlayer of wax, which soon becomes hard and tough, thus form-ing a cell. [Plate 4, Figs. 1, 2.] The larvae now graduallyattain the pupa stage, and remain inactive until their full devel- Plate IARASITES OF WILD BEES. APIARI^. 131 opment. They then cut their way out, and are ready to assumetheir duties as workers, small
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . ^ haveattained their full size, they spin a silken wall about them,which is strengthened by the old bees covering it with a thinlayer of wax, which soon becomes hard and tough, thus form-ing a cell. [Plate 4, Figs. 1, 2.] The larvae now graduallyattain the pupa stage, and remain inactive until their full devel- Plate IARASITES OF WILD BEES. APIARI^. 131 opment. They then cut their way out, and are ready to assumetheir duties as workers, small females, males or queens. It is apparent that t)ie irregular disposition of the cells isdue to their being constructed so peculiarly by the the first l)rood, composed of workers, has come forth,the queen bee devotes her time principally to her duties athome, the workers supplying the colony with honey and the queen continues prolific, more workers are added, andthe nest is rapidly enlarged. About the middle of summer eggs are deposited whichproduce both small females and males. . All eggs laidafter the last of July produce the large females, or queens ;and, the males being still in the nest, it is presumed that thequeens are impregnated at this time, as, on the approach ofcold weather, all except the queens, of which there are several ineach nest, die. (Putnam, Com. Essex Inst., vol. iv, p. 98,1864.) Besides Apathus, the larvoe of
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