70 PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HONEY-BEE. 
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length of the cell, lying on its back. 
Its food at this time, 
is changed for a semi-digested mixture of honey and pollen. 
Fig. 25. 
BROOD IN ALL STAGES. 
(From Girard.) 
{ 
a,b, magnified larve; c, the same, natural size; d, e, magnified nymph; 
f, natural size; 9, eggs, natural size; , magnified; i, egg, showing micro- 
pyle, magnified; j, micropyle, magnified. 
“The mixture of honey and pollen given at the end of the 
nursing, is easily detected by its color, which is yellower, on ac- 
count of the pollen, and 
can be seen through the 
skin of the larva.”—(Du- 
bini.) 
167. ‘The larva, or 
grub, grows apace, but 
not without experiencing 
a difficulty to which the 
human family is, in some 
sort, subject in the period 
of youth. Its coat is in- 
Fig. 26. 
COILED IN THE CELL. 
(Magnified. From Sartori and Rauschenfels.) 
elastic and does not grow with the wearer, so that it soon, 
fitting badly, has to be thrown off; but, happily in the case 
of the larva, a new and larger one has already been formed 
