. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee. Bee culture; Bees. WAX, AND BEE ARCHITECTURE. 177 struction of so-called " transition " cells. The name is misleading, and based on a misconception, for bees pass at once from worker to drone, or vice versa, and then build accommodation cells as necessity determines, until the regularity of the new pattern is established. It is singular that the form given to these irregular cells, in all the books I have yet seen, is such as
. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee. Bee culture; Bees. WAX, AND BEE ARCHITECTURE. 177 struction of so-called " transition " cells. The name is misleading, and based on a misconception, for bees pass at once from worker to drone, or vice versa, and then build accommodation cells as necessity determines, until the regularity of the new pattern is established. It is singular that the form given to these irregular cells, in all the books I have yet seen, is such as no bee ever did or could con- struct, as it contains an acute angle bounded by straight lines to the angular point. This matter is not unimportant, for, if the books be believed in,. Fig. 39.—Cell Forms Impossible and Actual. A, Impossible Cell—/, Angular Point 61° ; h, Head of Bee (Natural Size). B, Comb, with Accommodation Cells—a, Normal Worker Cell; b, Pseudo-Cell; c, Oval Cell; d, Normal Drone Cell; e, Truncated Angle, giving Room for Bee's Head. the manner of cell elaboration cannot be understood. Even Langstroth, to whom the debt of apiculture is very great, has an illustration of the intermediate cell with a prolonged internal angle of 620, which a number of English writers have improved (?) to 510, whereas about ioo° is the limit the bee can reach. By giving a copy (A, Fig. 39) of the cell (Fig. 48) of Langstroth, into which I insert a bee's head (//), of the natural size, the mistake becomes evident; for how could this bee bring her jaws and maxillae into Q. 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 Cheshire, Frank Richard, 1833?-1894. London, L. U. Gill
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