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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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Text Appearing Before Image: roung queens mature, the old queen seeks to destroy them ; but she is usnsillyforced out of the hiveby the workers, a num-ber of which accompanyher. This migration iswhat we call swarm-ing. 1 When severalyoung queens mature atthe same time, duels orrepeated swarmings en-sue until only one queenremains. When a newcolony is started in ahive or hollow tree, acomb is formed of waxsecreted by the workerbees, and into this thequeen deposits eggs des-tined to develop into workers. Still later, eggs destined to form drones are laid incells larger than those in which workers develop. The de-veloping young workers and drones are fed with honey andbee-bread. Honey is derived from the nectar of flowers,which is lapped up by the workers, is stored for a time in thecrop, where it undergoes certain transformations, and is then

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. ol«. —Swarm of bees. Photo, byD.and S. 1 Fig. 31 a. THE BUTTERFLY AND ITS ALLIES 33 regurgitated into the cells. The nature of the transfor-mation of the nectar in the crop of the bee is not preciselyknown, but it is not great enough to prevent the character-istic flavors of the flowers of the buckwheat, orange, andso on, from being retained in the honey. The bee-breadis made from the pollen of the flowers, which is broughtinto the hive on the hind legs of the workers. When anew queen is needed for the colony, and the queen cellsare empty, one may be produced by the workers in the fol-lowing manner: The partitions between three worker cellsare destroyed and two of the embryos are killed. Theenlarged cell is rilled with a special nutritive compoundmanufactured by the workers and known as royal jelly.The remaining embryo, fed upon this especially nutritiousjelly, develops, not into a worker, but into a queen. Of the true wasps (Vespidie !), some are solitary; others,like certain

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