. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bee culture; Honey. Fig. 55. — Ventral view of worker re- moving wax-scale. Enlarged. their proper position and shape. In spite of the number of bees at work in building, the wax is quickly smoothed into its final form, becoming a part of the comb. Dreylingx has shown that in just emerged worker bees the cells of the wax glands are not fully developed and that as the worker grows older the cells elongate. As the bee ages, however, these cells decrease and degen- erate. These results fully support the observa
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. Beekeeping; a discussion of the life of the honeybee and of the production of honey. Bee culture; Honey. Fig. 55. — Ventral view of worker re- moving wax-scale. Enlarged. their proper position and shape. In spite of the number of bees at work in building, the wax is quickly smoothed into its final form, becoming a part of the comb. Dreylingx has shown that in just emerged worker bees the cells of the wax glands are not fully developed and that as the worker grows older the cells elongate. As the bee ages, however, these cells decrease and degen- erate. These results fully support the observations of beekeepers that bees secrete wax best before they become field bees. If, however, a colony of old bees is required to build comb, the bees can still secrete some wax, but for some reason not under- stood they usually build irregularly. Beeswax is secreted in pockets on the ventral side of the abdomen on the wax plates (Fig. 53) situated on the sternal plates of the last four visible segments of the abdomen. Each Fig. 56. — Side view of worker removing segment bears two of these Enlarged. plates, making eight in all.. wax-scale. 1 Dreyling, L., 1903. Ueber die wachsbereitenden Organe der Honig- biene. Zool. Anz., XXVI. , 1905. Die wachsbereitenden Organe bei den gesellig lebenden Bienen. Zool. Jahrbucher, Abth. Anat. u. Ont. d. Theire, XXII.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Phillips, Everett Franklin, 1878-1951. New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co. , ltd.