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PHYSIOLOGY Oi> THE HONEY-BEE. 



resembles a string of onions, is absent in the drones and 

 queens. According to Girard, these upper glands were dis- 

 covered by Meckel in 1846. They are very large and dilated 

 in the young worker bees, while they act as nurses, but are 

 slim in the bees of a broodless colony. In the old bees, that 



Fig. 6. 



SALIVARY GLANDS OF THE WOBKEK-BEE. 



(Magnified. After Barbd.) a, a, glands of tlie head; b, glands ol 

 the thorax. The two upper pairs are glands of the head, the lower 

 are glands of the thorax. 



