APPENDIX. 



DESCEIPTION OF THE THREE CLASSES 

 OF BEES. 



THE QUEEN BEE, 



From the important relation she sustains to the colony, 

 seems first to claim our attention. She is the acknowledged 

 sovereign and the mother of her subjects, and by them she 

 is protected and cared for with a true and genuine loyalty. 

 She is much larger and longer than' the worliing bee: her 

 abdomen is large and of a condike shape, being larger in the 

 swarming season than other times. Her wings are very 

 short proportionally: her color is much darker than the 

 ■worker, sometimes inearly blacky except her belly, which is 

 of a dark orange : by this color she may be distinguished in, 

 a cluster where her other peculiarities cannot be discovered. 

 Her movements are slower and more stately than those 

 of the worker. Her sting is larger and of a curved form, 

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