. Elements of biology; a practical text-book correlating botany, zoology, and human physiology. Biology. 250 ZOOLOGY It is by means of these egg-producing females that the brood is started the following year, as stated on the preceding page. The Honeybee. — The most wonderful commu- nal life is seen, however, among the honeybees. Their daily life may be easily watched in the schoolroom, by means of one of the many good and cheap observation hives now made to be placed in a window frame.^ The honeybee in a wild state makes its home in a hollow tree; hence the term bee tree. In the hive the colo
. Elements of biology; a practical text-book correlating botany, zoology, and human physiology. Biology. 250 ZOOLOGY It is by means of these egg-producing females that the brood is started the following year, as stated on the preceding page. The Honeybee. — The most wonderful commu- nal life is seen, however, among the honeybees. Their daily life may be easily watched in the schoolroom, by means of one of the many good and cheap observation hives now made to be placed in a window frame.^ The honeybee in a wild state makes its home in a hollow tree; hence the term bee tree. In the hive the colony usually consists of a queen, or egg-laying female, a few hundred drones, or males, and several thousand work- ing females, or workers. The colonies vary greatly in numbers. In a wild state there are fewer making up the colony. The division of labor is well seen in a hive in which the bees have been living for some weeks. The queen does nothing except lay eggs, sometimes laying three thousand eggs a day and keeping this up, during the warm weather, for several years. She may lay one million eggs during her life. She does not, as is popularly believed, rule the hive, but. Nests of solitary wasps on an apple leaf. From photograph by Overton, ^ Directions for making a small observation hive for school work can be found in Hodge, Nature Study and Life, Chap. XIV. Bulletin No. 1, Department of Agriculture, entitled The Honey Bee, bj^ Frank Benton, is valuable for the ama- teur bee keeper. It may be obtained for twenty-five cents from the Superintendent of Documents, Union Building, Washington, 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 Hunter, George William, 1873-1948. New York, American book company
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