Archive image from page 105 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( 80 CONSTRUCTION OF THE QUEEN'S CELL. very circumstance, that depends the early or late departure of the young queen from the hive.
Archive image from page 105 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( 80 CONSTRUCTION OF THE QUEEN'S CELL. very circumstance, that depends the early or late departure of the young queen from the hive. It is, however, not a little extraordinary, considering the numerous circumstances which arise from the natural and invariable habits of the bee, and all of which have a direct tendency to disprove the statement of Huber, that he should have ventured to pro- mulgate it so dogmatically, when the detection of its falsity is an every day occurrence in the management of an apiary. The cell which is to serve as the cradle of the young queen is constructed on the verge of the middle combs, and in its shape resembles the cup of the acorn, only more contracted at the ori- fice. The figures c d e f represent the queen's cell from its commencement to its completion, when it in a great degree resembles the cocoon of the silkworm. The letter a represents the cells appropriated for the reception of honey, and letter b denotes the combs filled with the brood. The egg of the queen takes about twenty-two days from the time of its emission from the ovarium of the mother queen, until the insect arrives at its maturity. It has been supposed by some naturalists that there is no sexual difference in the egg, but merely in the mode of its fructification, and that instead of all the eggs being fructified by the drones, each is impregnated by its like ; the drone by the drone, the common bee by the common bee, and the queen by herself; and in order to substantiate this hypothesis, some have decided t
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