Kidders Guide To Apiarian Science Being A Practical Treatise In Every Department Of Bee Culture And Bee Management Embracing The Natural History O

Author : K. P. Kidder
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458955876
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Kidder's Guide to Apiarian Science; Being a Practical Treatise, in Every Department of Bee Culture and Bee Management Embracing the Natural written by K. P. Kidder and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.1859 Excerpt: ... Figure 6. Anatomical viae of the interior part of the Working Bee, showing the honey bag, or first stomach A, also the regular stomach B, the small intestines 0, and the rectum 0; also, showing the extreme point of the body, sting,&c. A more particular description of this plate will be given in another chapter, as this cut was overlooked and not inserted in the chapter on the Anatomy of the Bee, as it should have been; I trust however, that the reader will appreciate it as well as though it had been inserted in its appropriate place. CHAHPER III. Impregnation Of The Queen Bee. In looking into a hive in spring or summer, the Queen may be seen laying eggs in the cells; in the smaller cells those of workers, and in the larger ones, Males or Drones. These eggs if examined on the fourth day of their being deposited, will be found hatched, and a small worm produced, which is floating in a whitish liquid, ascertained to be food introduced for the nourishment of the infant brood; and in due time s perfect bee emerges from the cell. The Queen lays the egg and the insect evolves from it; but how is the egg fecundated or rendered fertile? Has the Queen had personal union with the male? No one can speak positively to such a fact By what other means, then, is this effect produced? The impregnation of the Queen bee, is a branch of Natural History which has given rise to more discussion than almost any other fact connected with the nature of the insect. And, indeed. the difficulty, we might almost say impossibility, of obtaining anything like occular evidence on the subject, will readily account for the diversity of opinions that has hitherto prevailed. And we should hope that this difficulty alone, and not any preconceived theory, or unreasonable prejudice, is the cause o...