. The bee-keeper's guide; or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. OR, MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 129 weeks, after which they were purely mated, and every one of the two hundred chickens were without any Brahma marks. Even the leg's were absolutely clean. Likewise, thousands of drones, reared from pure Syrian queens, but mated to Italian drones, showed not the slig-htest Italian taint. I believe teleg- ony is a very doubtful hypothesis. THB NBUTBRS, OR WORKBR-BKES. These, called " the bees " by Aristotle, and even by Wild- man and Bevan, are by far the most numerous individuals of Fig. Worker
. The bee-keeper's guide; or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. OR, MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 129 weeks, after which they were purely mated, and every one of the two hundred chickens were without any Brahma marks. Even the leg's were absolutely clean. Likewise, thousands of drones, reared from pure Syrian queens, but mated to Italian drones, showed not the slig-htest Italian taint. I believe teleg- ony is a very doubtful hypothesis. THB NBUTBRS, OR WORKBR-BKES. These, called " the bees " by Aristotle, and even by Wild- man and Bevan, are by far the most numerous individuals of Fig. Worker-Bee much magnified, from Newman. the hive—there being- from 15,000 to 40,000 in every good col- ony. It is possible for a colony to be even much more popu- lous than this. (L,ubbock says that there are often 50,000 worker-ants in a nest.) These are also the smallest bees of the colony, as they measure but little more than one-half of an inch in length (Fig. 51.) As already stated, it takes about. 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 Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. , George W. York & company
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