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Fig. 55. COVERED APIARY. 



THE BEE. 



ITS CHARACTER AND MANNERS. 



CHAPTEE III. 



66, Drone cells and worker cells. 67. Store cells. 68. Construction 

 of combs. 69. Wax-makers also produce honey. 70. First 

 operation of the wax-makers. 71. Process of the foundress. 

 72. Kneading the wax. 73. Formation of first wall. 74. Correction 

 of mistakes. 75. Dimensions of first wall. 76. Operations of the 

 nurses. 77. Bases of cells. 78. Wax-makers resume their work. 

 Completion of pyramidal bases. 79. Pyramidal partition. 80. 

 Formation of cells. 81-82. Arrangement of combs. 83. Sides not 

 parallel. 84. Process not merely mechanical. 85-86. Process of 

 construction. 87. Labour successive. 88. Dimensions of cells. 

 89. Their number. 90. Bee-bread. 91. Pap for young. 92. Food 

 adapted to age. 93. Transformation. 94. Humble-bees females. 

 95. Their nursing workers. 96. Transformation. 97. How the 

 temperature of the cocoons is maintained. 98. Anecdote related by 

 Huber. 99. Remarkable care of the nurses. 100. Heat evolved in 

 respiration by the hive-bee 101. Cross alleys connecting the streets. 

 102. First laying of the queen in Spring. 103. Her royal suite. 

 104. The eggs. 



66. Since the population of the hive is composed, as already 

 explained, of different classes of individuals having different 

 stature, and since one of the purposes of the cells is to he their 



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