Natural history of insects : comprising their architecture, transformations, senses, food, habits--collection, preservation and arrangement . fforker-bee, magnified—-shoxoin^ the position of the scales of Wax* are produced from time to time, and are removed andemployed as we shall presently see. We may remarkthat it is chiefly the wax-workers which produce thewax, for though the nurse-bees are furnished withwax pockets, they secrete it only in very small quan-tities, while in the queen bee, and the males or drones,no pockets are discoverable. 104 INSECT Ahdoriien nf Queen Bee.
Natural history of insects : comprising their architecture, transformations, senses, food, habits--collection, preservation and arrangement . fforker-bee, magnified—-shoxoin^ the position of the scales of Wax* are produced from time to time, and are removed andemployed as we shall presently see. We may remarkthat it is chiefly the wax-workers which produce thewax, for though the nurse-bees are furnished withwax pockets, they secrete it only in very small quan-tities, while in the queen bee, and the males or drones,no pockets are discoverable. 104 INSECT Ahdoriien nf Queen Bee. ^ All the scales, says Huber, ^are not alilce inevery bee, for a difference is perceptible in consist-ence, shape, and thickness; some are so thin andtransparent, as to require a magnifier to be recog-nised, or we have been able to discover nothing butspicula3 similar to those of water freezing. ]\ either thespicules nor the scales rest immediately on the mem-brane of the pocket, a slight liquid medium is inter-posed, serving to lubricate the joinings of the rings,or to render the extraction of the scalas easier, asotheiwise they might adhere too firmly to the sidesof the pockets. M, Huber has seen the scales solarge as to project beyond the rings, bemg visiblewithout stretching the segments, and of a whitish-^yellow, from greater thickness lessening their trans-parency. These shades of difference in the scales ofvarious bees, their enlarged dimensions, the fluid in-terposed beneath them, the correspondence betweenthe scale, and the size and form of the pockets
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