CHAPTER VI. 



SALIVARY (?) GLANDS OF BEES. 



Discovery of Glands — Plans for Dissection — Position 

 and Connection of Systems No. i, No. 2, No. j — 

 Details of the Systems— Intracellular and Inter- 

 cellular Glands — System No. 4 of Schiemenz — 

 Uses of the Glands — Variations in Queens — Brood 

 Food — Brood Weaning — Royal Jelly — Queen 

 Raising — Fertile Workers — Egg Production — A 

 New Theory Respecting Queen Food ■ — Queen 

 Dejections — How Queens are Stimulated into 

 Laying by the Nurses — System No. 1 a Chyle 

 Gland — Retarded Laying Explained — Feedin <r- 

 Groove. 

 In 1811, Ramdohr announced the discovery of a pair 

 of salivary glands in the thorax of bees, whilst two 

 other pairs were found by H. Meckel, in 1846; and 

 yet dense ignorance respecting them is common to 

 the present day, even such an accomplished German 

 apiculturist as Berlepsch failing to mention them 

 while Cook only in his last edition (1884) calls 

 attention to the existence of two pairs, which he 

 tells us were "first discovered by Mr. Justin Spald- 

 ing." It is not a wonder that the rank and file of 



