The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-03-28 00:00:00

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To the studisat of nature, • colony of bees presents a
scene of the most lively int •rust. 11, daring the bawling
swoon, we drew from the hive • sheet of brood comb and
look into the cells. we shall lint ovoid-oblong bodies
slightly curved, and of • pearly waits colour, attached to
the bottom of the cells by one extremity. Tone are the
egp from wince the young bees are to be proland. If
found lu the larger cells, which measure four ta an inch,
*drone or male bee will be batched. If the egg is lend in
cute of the smaller ante, which measure In Is an inch,
it will produce a worker. It an egg be found in • queen
cell, or If it is laid in • worker cell, and the cell Is much
enlerged, the lanes being bountifully fed with what is
termed nye! jelly, • queen will be Produced. An egg Is
deposited by the queen In a cell prepared by the workers ;
in tern days it hatcess into a mall worm, it is then fed
and cherished by the nurses until about the eighth day,
when the lune becomes • nymph. and Is @send op in its
cell, to emerge • perfect ben. Tee drones meta., in II
days from the laying of the egg, the workers in 41, and the
queen in from 10 to 17. The three kiwis of bees —queen,
worker, and dronewsre readily distinguished by their
general form. The queen of the hive is widely digenent
from the host by winch she is surrounded. While she is
not nearly so bulky as Unclean, her body is longer; and,
as it is considerably more teperiug than that of • worker,
she has a somewhat wan-like appearance. Her "rings an
much shorter in prop irtioe than Pon of the sir ins or the
worker, her c dour is brighter, and her movements
are generally slow and matronly. No colony coo long
exist without her, for during she bu.y swain the life of
the worker is so short—t rom sax week. to three months—
that the hive needs • constant supply of young bees. The
queen us treated with the greatest possible newt and
aft Pion by her ceildi ea, end • circle of her loving
°leering constantly surround' her, to attend to her every
: went; and all p dimly back out of her way like courtiers
as she moves about the c tub The fertility of the queen
lee to truly marvellona. During the height of the breeding
ees.oa, she will often, under fay° 'Foale circumstances. lee
• %OW or 3,000 eggs a day. Surprising as thtsm.y seem. it
does not equel the fecundity of the female of the white
set, which Is said to lay fel egp • minute • but the WV of
the letter are simply extruded from the body. and carried
by the ...rears into suitable nareenes, while the gee's
hoe deposits herein their impropriste cells. The Porton"
of the queen's wings renders her incapable of lung or
cintinuad light, enlace matter effect, see seldom leaves
the hive mire team twice; first, when she goes a for her
wedding tour; and, **coedit, when she loaves the hive
with • smarm, in order to make room for a younger and
more vigorous sisocenor. She his • sting' but seldom
! twee it except in combat with another royal lady
The drones are tbe male bees, and their sole mission seems
to be to act am conarte for the young prince's's. They
are very omen stouter than either the queen or workers.
although their bodies are not quite so long as that of tee
former Ten have no pinye with which to defend them-
selves :no prob.:o-de suitable f gathering honey Iran the
flowers; no beakete on their thighs for holding Palen
and no pooches on their abdomen. for secreting meal.
nur are, therefore, physically unqualified for the ordinarl
Work of the Inv.. Tee, ere hatched at the commencement
of the breeding sensory and as non al that Is over they
are turned out of the hive by the worker", to starve and
die N ixt in order come the worker bees, which er•
undeveloped (amide. ; properly celled papa A hive
la-y contain from 6.000 is ten times that niunber, accord-
ing to the Samoa, and the siefefo of management adopted.
They are the smallest bees in the stock, and bays very
long tong., or proboscis) with which they search deeply
into the eateries of losers and blossoms, for the purpose
of sucking out their secretions. Toey are also furnished
with what ere called pollee-baskete, which are formed by
a teeny rim round a hollow on the thigh' of their hinder-
most lees, in which they collect the pollen from the
stamens ol I men; and thin. at eech journey, they carry
h .me to their hives toe materiel with which they elaborate
wax and rear their young.

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