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Title: The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea) : being an adaptation, for English readers, of M. Émile Blanchard's "Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects;" and a compilation from the works of Newport, Charles Darwin, Spence Bate, Fritz Müller, Packard, Lubbock, Stainton, and others
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891 Blanchard, Emile, 1819-1900. Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects Conger, Paul S., former owner. DSI Abbott, Charles C., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Insects Insects Myriapoda Arachnida Crustacea
Publisher: Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Psitli vnis vcstaiis. here. It is a curious fact that many virgin bees lay eggs whencemale larvc^e are always derived, and that this female after fe-cundation lays other eggs which turn into workers and fertilefemales. , This faculty forms part of the phenomena of partheno-genesis, which have been so carefully studied of late years. Hivebees when wild establish themselves in cavities, such as those
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THE APIS MELLIFICA. 255 inside old trunks of trees. They make their hive, and their societyconsists of a crowd of workers and a single female or queen. Cellmaking goes on, the queen lays, and larvae are born, and a newgeneration is thus produced ; and thus some hundreds of malesmay be counted in a hive at one particular period of the year,besides the queen and the workers. These three kinds of individuals present striking differences.The fertile females and workers of wasps and humble bees arevery much alike ; the fertile females are only slightly larger thanthe others—but were they not workers at one period of theirexistence .- The queen bee is incapable of working ; the workersor neuters are smaller than she is, and are not so large as the

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Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891; Blanchard, Emile, 1819-1900. Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insects; Conger, Paul S., former owner. DSI;

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