. Langstroth on the hive and honey-bee. Bees. GENERAL CHABACTEEISTICS. 17 no longer nurse the brood, they wither more and more, till they become shrunken and seemingly dried. Hence Maurice Girard, and others before him, have concluded very rationally that these upper glands produce the milky food given to the larvffi, during the first days of their development. Mr. Ches- hire has confirmed the very reasonable theory that the queen, during the time of egg-laying, is fed by the workers from the secretions of this LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH HEAD OP WORKER. (Magnified 14 times. From Clie
. Langstroth on the hive and honey-bee. Bees. GENERAL CHABACTEEISTICS. 17 no longer nurse the brood, they wither more and more, till they become shrunken and seemingly dried. Hence Maurice Girard, and others before him, have concluded very rationally that these upper glands produce the milky food given to the larvffi, during the first days of their development. Mr. Ches- hire has confirmed the very reasonable theory that the queen, during the time of egg-laying, is fed by the workers from the secretions of this LONGITUDINAL SECTION THROUGH HEAD OP WORKER. (Magnified 14 times. From Clieshire.) u, antenna, with three muscles attached to mcp, meso-cephalic pillar; cl clypeus; Ibr^ labrum or upper lip; No. 1, upper salivary or chyle gland (this gland really runs in front of the meso-cephalic pillars, but here the latter are kept in view) ; o, opening of same in the mouth; oc, ocellus or simple eye ; cg^ cephalic ganglion, or brain system ; ii, neck: tfij thorax ; oe^ oesof)hagus or gullet; sd, 2, 3, salivary ducts of glands two and three; sv, salivary valve; ph pharynx; Ib^ labium or lower lip, with its parts separated for display; mt, mentum or chin; mo, mouth; mx, maxilla; Ip, labial palpi; I, ligula or tongue ; 1), boutcn. 40. "The queen at certain periods has the power of pro- ducing between 2,000 and 3,000 eggs daily (98). A careful calculation shows that 90,000 of these would occupy a cubic inch and weigh 270 grains. So that a good queen, for days or even weeks* in succession, would deposit, every twenty-four • These facts have been demonstrated so repeatedly, that they are as well established as the most common laws in the breeding of our domestic 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 Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895; Dadant, Charles, 1817-1902
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