British bee-keeper's guide book to the management of bees in movable-comb hives, and modern bee-appliances / by T.W. Cowan.

  • Cowan, T. W. (Thomas William), 1840-1926.
Date:
1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: British bee-keeper's guide book to the management of bees in movable-comb hives, and modern bee-appliances / by T.W. Cowan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    base between, measures about seven-eighths of an inch. Drone-cells are larger, four measuring i inch, the thickness of the comb being one and a quarter Fig. 4. —Worker and Drone-comb. inches. There are 28’86 worker and 18-47 drone- cells to a square inch on each side. Where both sizes of cells are built on the same comb, irregular- sided intermediate ones are built between them. Both sizes of cells, varying greatly in depth, are used for storing honey. The cappings of honey-cells consist of wax only, whereas those of cells containing brood consist of a mixture of wax and pollen, and are more porous in their nature than those of the former. Queen-cells (Fig. 5), as will be seen, differ very much in form from both the above, somewhat resembling an acorn in shape, about an inch in depth, and one-third of an inch in diameter. Made from a mixture consisting of wax and pollen, they are covered with a number of depressions which give the cells greater strength. The walls of queen- cells are very thick and porous, requiring in their construction much wax, which, when the queen has hatched out, is used elsewhere, and the cell is cut