. The animals and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. Zoology; Physiology. MUTUAL AID AND COMMUNAL LIFE 429 no more work except that of egg-laying. From these new eggs are produced more workers, and so on until the com- munity may come to be pretty large. Later in the summer males and females are produced and mate. With the approach of winter all the workers and males die, leaving only the fertilized females, the queens, to live through the winter and found new communities in the spring. Honeybees live together, as we knov/, in large communities. We are accustomed to t
. The animals and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. Zoology; Physiology. MUTUAL AID AND COMMUNAL LIFE 429 no more work except that of egg-laying. From these new eggs are produced more workers, and so on until the com- munity may come to be pretty large. Later in the summer males and females are produced and mate. With the approach of winter all the workers and males die, leaving only the fertilized females, the queens, to live through the winter and found new communities in the spring. Honeybees live together, as we knov/, in large communities. We are accustomed to think of honeybees as the inhabitants of beehives, but there were bees before there were hives. The "bee tree" is famil- iar to many of us. The bees, in Nature, make their home in the hollow of some dead tree trunk and carry on there all the industries which characterize the busy communities in the hives. These industries and indeed the whole life of a honeybee community are so interesting and informing and withal so readily studied in any schoolroom that I give in the fol- lowing pages some detailed directions and suggestions for a careful school study of the life of this fascinating insect. The life of a honeybee^—In studying the life of the honeybees one must observe them in the hive as well as in the field. It is therefore highly desirable to have an "observation" hive (fig. 219), , one made with glass sides and glass top, covered with outer wooden sides which are swung on hinges like doors, and with the usual removable wooden roof. Ordinarily the wooden sides and top are closed, thus leaving the hive in darkness. However, when. Fig. 217. Diagrams of nest-burrows of short-tongued mining-bees. B, nest of Andrena; A, compound nest of 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 origi
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