. Bee primer for the prospective beekeeper. Bees. [from old catalog]. THF WORKFRS (^^S- 7^) are the most numerous inhabitants of the bee-hive, as IIIL. Vtv7I\1\LI\J also the smallest. They number from a few thousand up to eighty thousand or more. They do what their name implies, build the combs, rear the brood by feeding it and keeping it warm, harvest the honey, chase intruders away and keep the hive clean. They ventilate their home in the summer by the fanning of their wings and cluster together for warmth in the winter. They have short, thick, smooth manibles that enable them to tear the co
. Bee primer for the prospective beekeeper. Bees. [from old catalog]. THF WORKFRS (^^S- 7^) are the most numerous inhabitants of the bee-hive, as IIIL. Vtv7I\1\LI\J also the smallest. They number from a few thousand up to eighty thousand or more. They do what their name implies, build the combs, rear the brood by feeding it and keeping it warm, harvest the honey, chase intruders away and keep the hive clean. They ventilate their home in the summer by the fanning of their wings and cluster together for warmth in the winter. They have short, thick, smooth manibles that enable them to tear the corolla of flowers and to build their combs out of soft wax, but they have no teeth like wasps or hornets. They are therefore UNABLE TO CUT THE SMOOTH SKIM OF ANY KIND OF SOUND FRUIT. ^^ • " Bees have five eyes, three small round eyes in a triangle at the top of the head, called "ocelli," and two large composite eyes formed of thousands of facets, one of these large eyes on each side of the head. The latter enable them to see at a distance, the former enable them to see within the hive, on the combs, in the dark. They have FOUR WINGS, two on each side of the corslet or second segment of the body. These wings fold over each other to enable them to enter within the cell where the brood is hatching. They have THREE PAIRS OF LEGS, also fastened to the second segment of the body. On the last or rear pair of legs of the workers, a small cavity, called the pollen basket, enables them to carry home the pollen of flowers, which some people, who see them so loaded, imagine to be wax, but which is used to make the pap for the young. It is popularly called bee-bread and is the fertilizing dust of flowers. The HONEY-SAC, or first stomach, is located in the abdomen or third segment of the body of the worker-bee. The ovaries, or egg pouches, which are very large in the queen, are almost absent in the workers, who are therefore incomplete females and unfit for mat- ing, although
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