 One of the nurse-bees now places itself horizontally on the vault of the hive, its head corresponding to the centre of the mass or wall which the wax-makers have left, and which is to form the partition of the comb into two opposite assemblages of cells...  American Bee Journal - Page 2291876Full view - About this book
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...nurse-bees, which are alone competent to model and perfect the work. The , former are the labourers, who convey the stone and mortar ; the latter the masons,...which the intended structure requires. One of the nurse-bees now places itself horizontally on the vault of the hive, its head corresponding to the centre... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...nurse-bees, which are alone competent to model and perfect the work. The former are the labourers, who convey the stone and mortar ; the latter the masons,...which the intended structure requires. One of the nurse-bees 1 Reanm. v- 434. now places itself horizontally on the vault of the hive, its head corresponding... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1846 - 642 pages
...inflection. The wax-makers having thus laid the foundation of a comb, are succeeded by the nurse-bees, which are alone competent to model and perfect the...which the intended structure requires. One of the nurse-bees now places itself horizontally on the vault of the hive, its head corresponding to the centre... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 316 pages
...labourers, who convey the materials ; the latter, the artists, who * A line is the twelfth part of an inch. work them up into the form which the intended structure requires. One of the nurse-bees places herself horizontally on the vault of the hive, her head corresponding to the centre... | |
 | WILLIAM KIRBY, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. - 1858 - 676 pages
...nurse-bees, which are alone competent to model and perfect the work. The former are the labourers, who convey the stone and mortar ; the latter the masons, who work them up into the form which the iutended structure requires. One of the nurse-bees now places itself horizontally on the vault of the... | |
 | Entomological Society of Ontario - Insect pests - 1872 - 416 pages
...the nurse bees, which are alone competent to model and perfect the work. The former are the labourers who convey the stone and mortar; the latter the masons...intended structure requires. One of the nurse bees with its mandibles moulds in the wall a cavity which is to form the base of one of the cells. When... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1877 - 698 pages
...the nurse bees, which are alone competent to model and perfect the work. The former are the labourers who convey the stone and mortar ; the latter the masons...intended structure requires. One of the nurse bees with its mandibles moulds in the wall a cavity which is to form the base of one of the cells. When... | |
 | William Hetherington Harris - Bee culture - 1884 - 302 pages
...intended structure requires. One of these bees now places itself horizontally on the vault (or bar-frame) of the hive, its head corresponding to the centre of the mass or wall which the wax-makers have left, and which is to form the partition of the comb into two opposite assemblages... | |
 | Entomological Society of Ontario - Insect pests - 1872 - 492 pages
...nurse bees, which are alone competent to model and perfect • the work. The former are the labourers who convey the stone and mortar ; the latter the masons...intended structure requires. One of the nurse bees with its mandibles moulds in the wall a cavity which is to form the base of one of the cells. When... | |
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