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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 



bowel to remain blind at the posterior extremity, 

 which may be well seen at Fig. 13, representing the 

 developing larva within the egg membrane ; here the 

 anterior invagination {fb) has already made junction 

 with the middle bowel {mb), but the after bowel (ab) 

 remains separate, and will continue to do so until 

 the commencement of the chrysalis condition, so that 

 the larva, usually so prolific of dejections, in the case 

 of the above-mentioned insects passes nothing. It 

 it were otherwise ordered with bees, by example, the 

 embarrassment would be great where the larva lies 



Fig. 13.— Bee Larva before Hatching (Magnified Forty times). 



ch, Chorion, or E t g Skin ; ga, Ganglia ; s.ga, Supra-cesophageal Ganglion ; jm, Jaw 

 Muscles forming; e, Nerve Collar; fb, Fore Bowel; mb, Middle ' Bowel ■ 

 ab, After Bowel. 



in a cell surrounded on all sides by liquid food ; 

 besides which, the honey we now so much value 

 would be made unacceptable, through possible con- 

 tamination from an uncleanly nursery. I have already 

 explained my discoveries respecting the way in 

 which the accumulated residua are at length o- Q t 

 rid of so as to leave the larva unsullied (pao- e 

 22). These surprising changes, humbling us by 

 showing us how little we know, and how much there 

 is to learn, may, without difficulty, be witnessed by 

 those possessing a stock of bees to furnish eggs, and 



