 ... rapidly moving its head, it moulds in that side of the wall a cavity which is to form the base of one of the cells to the diameter of which it is equal. When it has worked some minutes it departs, and another takes its place, deepening the cavity,...  American Bee Journal - Page 2291876Full view - About this book
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...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...in that side of the wall a cavity which is to form tire base of one of the cells to the diameter of which it is equal. When it has worked some minutes... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...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...to the diameter of which it is equal. When it has worked some minutes it departs, and another takes its place, deepening the cavity, heightening its... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1846 - 642 pages
...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 ; and 1 Vide Man. Ap. Ang. t. 12. ** e. 1. neat. fig. 19. ' Reaum. v. 424. with its mandibles, rapidly moving... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 316 pages
...horizontally on the vault of the hive, her head corresponding to the centre of the wall which the wax-makers have left, and which is to form the partition of the...into two opposite assemblages of cells ; and with her mandibles, rapidly moving her head, she moulds a cavity which is to form the base of one of the... | |
 | Insects - 1847 - 180 pages
...horizontally on the vault of the hive, her head corresponding to the centre of the wall which the wax-makers have left, and which is to form the partition of the comb into two opposite assemblages of cells; and rapidly moving her head, she moulds with her jaws a cavity which is to form the base of one of the... | |
 | Entomological Society of Ontario - Insect pests - 1872 - 416 pages
...the form which the 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 it has worked some minutes it departs, and another takes its place, deepening the cavity, heightening... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1877 - 694 pages
...the form which the 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 it has worked some minutes it departs, and another takes its place, deepening the cavity, heightening... | |
 | William Hetherington Harris - Bee culture - 1884 - 302 pages
...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...opposite assemblages of cells ; and with its mandibles (jaws), rapidly moving its head, it moulds in that side of the wall a cavity which is to form the base... | |
 | Entomological Society of Ontario - Insect pests - 1872 - 492 pages
...the form which the 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 it has worked some minutes it departs, and another takes its place, deepening the cavity, heightening... | |
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