This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ... body of workers were so too. They supposed that there were two kings in each hive, concerning which they held very whimsical opinions. But a more correct knowledge respecting bees was reserved for modern times. Swammardam, a Dutch physician, was the first who discovered, by dissection, that the sex of the monarch is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ... body of workers were so too. They supposed that there were two kings in each hive, concerning which they held very whimsical opinions. But a more correct knowledge respecting bees was reserved for modern times. Swammardam, a Dutch physician, was the first who discovered, by dissection, that the sex of the monarch is female, and that the queen-bee lays an immense number of eggs, uniting in herself the two characters of sovereign and mother of her people. Reaumur's Account of Sees. Reaumur-the French naturalist, made interesting experiments and discoveries in the natural history of bees also; but Huber, who was a native of Greneva, and died in 1831, has written the most clear and satisfactory account of them, as he devoted many years of his life, both before and after he lost his sight, in an accurate study of all their instincts and habits. The three ranks of bees pass through the successive stages of egg, larva, and nymph; but the future queen, while in.the larva (or grub) state, is coiled up in her cradle-cells (two or three being thrown into one for her accommodation) in a position different from that of the other bees, and which tends to promote the greater length of her more tapering body. The bee larva is a white worm without feet, and ringed all round. The larvae issue on the third day from the egg state, and are almost motionless; the nourishment given to them by their nurses is a sort of jelly, consisting of honey and the pollen of flowers; and they live on this liquid until they go out to obtain food. The embryo queen is fed by her attendants with a richer jelly than that which the ordinary grubs receive. During six days she is nourished in a warm temperature; on the seventh, she becomes a nymph, and no longer requires food from her watchful nurse...
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