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PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HONEY-BEE. 



length of the cell, lying on its back. Its food at this time, 

 is changed for a semi-digested mixture of honey and pollen. 





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Fig. 2.-). 

 BKOOD IN ALL STAGES. 

 {From Girard.) 

 u, 6, magnified larvae; t, tlie same, natural size; d, c, magnified nymph; 

 f, natural size; q, eggs, natural size; *, magnified; t, egg, sliowing raicro- 

 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 he seen through the 

 skin of the larva." — (Du- 

 bini.) 



16Y. "The larva, or 

 grub, grows apace, hut 

 not without experiencing 

 a difficulty to which the 

 human family is, in some 

 sort, subject in the period 

 of vouth. Its coat is in- 



Fig. 2R. 



COILED IN THE CELL. 



(Magnified. From Sartori and Rausclienfels.) 



elastic and does not grow with the wearer, so that it soon, 

 fitting badly, has to be thrown ofl'; but, happily in the case 

 of the larva, a new and larger one has already been formed 



