. The new bee-keepers' text-book. Bees; Bee culture. 78 bee's tongue. glue obtained from certain plants, which bees use for gluing up all cre- vices and making the hive tight. Drones and queen bees do not sting. They may be handled with impunity. Only worker bees sting. A little experience will enable you to tell the loud coarse buzzing sound of a flying drone from the softened hum of the worker. And the keen mad hum, when about to sting, is easily distinguished from the gentle hum of a worker bee when attending to his regular duties. You should examine some comb and learn to tell the differen
. The new bee-keepers' text-book. Bees; Bee culture. 78 bee's tongue. glue obtained from certain plants, which bees use for gluing up all cre- vices and making the hive tight. Drones and queen bees do not sting. They may be handled with impunity. Only worker bees sting. A little experience will enable you to tell the loud coarse buzzing sound of a flying drone from the softened hum of the worker. And the keen mad hum, when about to sting, is easily distinguished from the gentle hum of a worker bee when attending to his regular duties. You should examine some comb and learn to tell the difference between worker comb, in which an inch measures across the top of five cells, whilst four drone cells measure an inch in the same way. Honey will be put in either, and sometimes the cells are considerably lengthened out to hold honey. If the walls of cells are broken off, bees will soon build them up when honey is bee's tongue. The antennae of a bee are two little organs sticking up like horns, on the front of the head, sometimes called "; They seem to be the organs of touch, and are the means of intercommunication of knowl- edge The ligula, commonly called the tongue, is folded when at rest, but when at work it is darted rapidly among the flowers; receives. 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 King, Albert J; King, N. H; King, Homer A. New York, King
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