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Fig. 5. — Worker and drone cells side by side, showing the difTerence in size. The former measure five 

 to the inch, while tlie latter run four to the inch. 



SO that its rays may shine into the cells. 

 Along the tipper part of the frame, and at 

 the ends, the cells will probably be all seal- 

 ed, the cappings (as the coverings of the 

 cells are called) being flat, or often slightly 

 sunken, and wrinkled, and generally semi- 

 transparent. Stich sealing indicates the 

 presence of honey. On the edge of this re- 

 gion there will likely be a narrow belt of un- 

 sealed cells showing the honey, indicating 

 that the bees are using up their stores to 

 feed the young. When we reach the bot- 

 tom-board in our investigations we shall 

 find lying there a brownish-looking deposit, 

 like coarse dust, btit which is really the 

 fragments of comb-capping torn from the 

 cells. 



POLLEN STORES. 



Next to the open cells with honey often 

 comes a narrow band of cells filled with a 

 brownish-colored solid substance. This is 

 pollen, or bee-bread, which is the male ele- 

 ment of plants, and forms part of the food 

 of the young of the bee while in the larval 

 or maggot stage. 



THE BROOD-CELLS. 



In the center of the frame we find the 

 brood in all stages — eggs, larvse, and co- 

 coons. The last are sealed over, just as is 

 the honey, with this difference, however, 

 that the cappings are dark-colored, and 

 slightly raised in the case of worker l^rood 

 — decidedly so with drone-cells. The larvae 

 are easily seen, coiled up in the bottom of 



;omb cleared of bees for Inspection 



Fig. 7.— The best way to jar the bees from the com 



