. Creation by evolution; a consensus of present-day knowledge as set forth by leading authorities in non-technical language that all may understand. Evolution. Fig. 8. —Bee larva. (After Fleischman.) settles down. But she does not quit the hive till nearly a week after her emergence from the cocoon. Yet all the time she is kept busy helping the older workers. When she first leaves the hive she may attempt only small flights. She has to learn her way home before she sets out to collect honey from the sugar glands of plants or pollen from the pollen sacs of flowers. She may make as many as a hun
. Creation by evolution; a consensus of present-day knowledge as set forth by leading authorities in non-technical language that all may understand. Evolution. Fig. 8. —Bee larva. (After Fleischman.) settles down. But she does not quit the hive till nearly a week after her emergence from the cocoon. Yet all the time she is kept busy helping the older workers. When she first leaves the hive she may attempt only small flights. She has to learn her way home before she sets out to collect honey from the sugar glands of plants or pollen from the pollen sacs of flowers. She may make as many as a hun- dred flights a day (Fig. 9), bringing back beebread, or pol- len, and honey, which are stored in separate cells and used as food for the inhabitants of the hive. Through long ages the flowers and the bees have evolved together and they are now fitted to each other as hand to glove. It will be observed that the life of the whole colony is based on the principles of pure socialism, and that the social system is superior to ours. There is no unemployment in a hive; there are no strikes, no lock-outs. Ex- cept the drones everyone works continuously and at high pres- sure. A vast majority of the bees live as workers, entirely renounc- ing individual rights in their effort to continue the swarm—to make sure that another queen bee may always be ready when her predecessor dies. Self-preservation and self-propagation are completely transcended that the swarm—the social unit— may be continued. Sometimes bees act as foragers, collect- [192]. Fig, 9.—A bee upon the wing, showing the position of the middle legs when they touch and pat down masses of pollen. (After Casteel.). 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 Mason, Frances Baker; Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931; Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur),
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