...ducts of two glands, which will be found, on following back, lying one on each side of the oesophagus, in the space between the muscles of the wings. At...active or aborted condition in nearly all Hymenoptera. Of course I cannot say that the bee makes this use of it, but I do say it should, and if it does not,...

...ducts of two glands, which will be found, on following back, lying one on each side of the oesophagus, in the space between the muscles of the wings. At...spinning glands of the larvae modified. If this is true, 1 should expect to find them either in an active or aborted condition in nearly all Hymenoptera. Another...

...ducts of two glands, which will be found, on following back, lying one on each side of the oesophagus, in the space between the muscles of the wings. At...suggestion that they may be the spinning glands of the larvse modified. If this is true, 1 should expect to find them either in an active or aborted condition...

...strong in the of thorax much magnified. absence of fects to curb ; t It seems but natural from the^size, position and outlet of the glands, connected as they...nectar carried from the flower to the mouth ? This must FIG. 5.—Cross section of ligula magnified one be, from the nature of the hundred and seventy diameters....

...position, and outlet of the glands, connected as they are with an inlet for the nectar of flowers, that they are organs that furnish the animal secretion that changes nectar into honey, and suggests that they may be the spinning glands of the larvre modified, in which case they should bo...