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SYSTEMS OF EUBER AND HTJISH. 



12. 

 Food of various kinds is 

 administered to the worms, 

 according to their ages. 



13. 

 Wax is made from honey 

 or sugar, imbibed by the 

 bees called wax-workers, 

 from whose bodies it exudes 

 in scales between the rings 

 of the abdomen. 



14. 



Propolis is a vegetable sub- 

 stance collected by the bees, 

 and has no affinity whatever 

 with wax. 



15. 



The cells of the bees are 

 made of wax, and lined and 

 soldered with propolis. 



16. 

 The bees kill the drones 

 by means of their stings. 



17. 



The queen makes use of 



her sting in the killing of 



the young queens in their 



cells. 



18. 



The first-born queen stings 



12. 

 No kind of food is ad- 

 ministered to the worms in 

 the cells. 



13. 

 Wax is made from an 

 elaboration of the pollen of 

 flowers in the second sto- 

 mach of the bee, 



14. 



There is no such substance 

 in a hive as propolis. The 

 substance called propolis is 

 an accumulated mass of wax 

 in a rough state of elabora- 

 tion. 



15. 



The cells of the bees are 

 entirely made of wax, with- 

 out the admixture of any 

 other substance. 

 16. 



The bees never make xise 

 of their stings in the mas- 

 sacre of the drones. 



17. 

 The queen never makes 

 use of her sting on any 

 occasion whatever. 



IS. 

 The first-born queen never 



