. Bees and honey;. Bees. FIRST LESSONS IN BEE-KEEPING 15 queen would remain unfertile, and the colony soon become ex- tinct. When comparing the head of the drone (Fig. 5), with those of the queen and the worker (Figs. 2 and 7), one readily notices the compound eyes, those crescent-shaped projections on each side of the head. They are much larger in the drone than in either of the others, and this is ascribed by scientists. Fig. 5—Head of Drone (magnified.) to the necessity of finding the queen in the air, on the wing. The facets composing these eyes number some 25,000 in the head of the drone,
. Bees and honey;. Bees. FIRST LESSONS IN BEE-KEEPING 15 queen would remain unfertile, and the colony soon become ex- tinct. When comparing the head of the drone (Fig. 5), with those of the queen and the worker (Figs. 2 and 7), one readily notices the compound eyes, those crescent-shaped projections on each side of the head. They are much larger in the drone than in either of the others, and this is ascribed by scientists. Fig. 5—Head of Drone (magnified.) to the necessity of finding the queen in the air, on the wing. The facets composing these eyes number some 25,000 in the head of the drone, so that they can see in all directions. The three small points in a triangle at the top of the head are small eyes or ocelli, which are probably used to see in the dark, within the hive, and at short range. The Workers These are undeveloped females, and they do all the work that is done in the hive. They secrete the wax, build the comb, gather the pollen for the young, and honey for all, feed and rear the brood, and fight all the battles necessary to defend the colony. Of the three kinds of bees these are the smallest, but con- stitute the great mass of the population. They possess the whole ruling power of the colony and regulate its economy. The workers are provided with a honey-sac, which is their first stomach; there is a small cavity on their posterior legs, (Fig. 8AA) in which they store the pollen of flowers in very small lumps, being the most convenient form in which to carry it home. They are also provided with a sting, which they use only for 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 Newman, Thomas Gabriel, 1833-1903. [from old catalog]; Dadant, Camille Pierre, 1851- [from old catalog] ed. Chicago, Ill. , The American bee journal
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