. Nature study [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 53 If you look closely, however, you will see that some are grey and fuzzy and others are brown or yellow, or golden. Others again are big, blunt, burly fellows. The grey ones are the youngest, the brown or yellow ones are older, and the big burly fellows are the drones. The combs with which the hive is consist of a f,'reat many little cups called cells. They are built by the workers of wax which they make themselves. They use the combs as cradles for the young and for storing honey and pollen. All the thousands of be
. Nature study [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 53 If you look closely, however, you will see that some are grey and fuzzy and others are brown or yellow, or golden. Others again are big, blunt, burly fellows. The grey ones are the youngest, the brown or yellow ones are older, and the big burly fellows are the drones. The combs with which the hive is consist of a f,'reat many little cups called cells. They are built by the workers of wax which they make themselves. They use the combs as cradles for the young and for storing honey and pollen. All the thousands of bees in the hive have one mother. She is called the queeu, and, of course, they are very fond of her. She does not do anything but lay. Opening a hive, showing comb of capped brood. the eggs from which the young bees are reared. She places them in the cells of the comb, one in each. You have already heard how the young bees develop. When a new bee comes out of its coll it finds itself in a crowd of busy jostling workers, who pay no more attention to it than though it were not there. It is rather weak at first, but soon pret? food anfl heforo long is helping the other youn"^ bees with the housework. Like the hundreds of others coming out at the same time it finds its place and work in the communitv. It first does hive work, which con- sists in feeding the larvae, secreting wax, building comb, ripening honey, "cleaning house," and the many other duties about the hive. When two or three weeks old the young bees learn to fly and begin gathering nectar and pollen. They are then no longer "hive bees" but "field bees," and if t II 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 Creelman, George C. (George Christie), b. 1869; Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture. Toronto : Dept. of Agr
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