... abun- dantly. We had, therefore, to learn whether bees, deprived of pollen for a series of time, would make wax, ... of the preceding experiment would prove whether the pollen itself had the same property, in- stead of supplying our bees with honey, we fed them on nothing except ...

... one time sup- posed to be merely the pollen of plants elaborated by bees. Bonnet, however, so early as 1768, asserted it ... assertion. The latter writer, indeed, proved that the pollen is not at all essential to the production of wax, for bees fed on honey and water equally secreted it, ...

... nurse the young, and gather the nectar and pollen in the fields. The bees can raise a new queen at will from ... and pollen, partly di- gested. Afterward they receive pollen and honey undigested until the sixth day, when their cell is sealed. If a queen bee is to be developed, the larva is fed ...

... leaft poffible time. Concerning Wax. The wax oS bees is merely the pollen very little altered. TheSe inSeas have the kftmurs ...

... surface, in which the pollen is placed. The pollen is held there by hairs which HONEY BEE 157 arise on the edges of the tibia. ... the various substances from the flowers, the worker Bees inci- dentally transfer pollen from one plant to another, thereby bringing about ...

... anther is bulging full of yellow dust called pollen, which spills out whenever a bee brushes against it. There is one more part ... the production of seed. Sometimes the wind carries pollen from one flower to ... insects. The honey- bee goes from flower to flower continually, and its ...

... in the constant inter-action of vitality, the bee carries pollen from blossom to blossom, whereby the clover is fertilized and made more vigorous, and yields more honey to tempt the bee, and thus the clover is gradually made a ...

... the hive. The varied tasks of the worker bees of pollen- and nec- tar-gathering, comb-building, larva-feeding, cleaning, ventilating, etc., mostly cease, and 13 14 MIND AND HEREDITY a great crowd of bees gathers about the queen cell, from which is ...

... workers prepare the comb and bring in the pollen and honey; they feed the young bees and seal them up when the time comes ... valuable for home study 26 Artificial selection 143 Bees 20 Bibliography 187 Birds: carry pollen 9 courtship of 33, 38 nests of 32 ...

... though an animal production, is made by the bees from the pollen of plants. Camphor has much analogy with the ...