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in the expenditure of animal heat, in the development 

 of the young of this insect ? 



CHAPTER V. 



DIVISION OF LABOR OF BEES. 



Huber's theory in regard to the division of labor is, 

 that the workers are divided into wax-workers, or those 

 that build the combs, nursing bees, and honey-gatherers ; 

 and he contended, that there is a difference in the or- 

 ganic structure of these different classes, so as to render 

 them incapable of doing anything except the particular 

 labor, that nature designed for them ; though such dif- 

 ference in the organic structure is not visible to the 

 naked eye. Huber went a little too far in this assump- 

 tion, since it would puzzle all his adherents to explain, 

 how such a difference in structure is produced, when 

 they all come from the same kind of egg, and receive 

 precisely the same treatment, throughout their whole 

 development. 



But it is true, that labor in a family of bees has its 

 divisions ; — there are wax-workers, nursing bees, and 

 gatherers ; but there is not the slightest difference in 



