Identifier: abcofbeeculturec00root (find matches)
Title: The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Root, A. I. (Amos Ives), 1839-1923
Subjects: Bee culture
Publisher: Medina, Ohio
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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etits functions are very mucli the same; andif allowed to become dammed uj) by excreta(that is,by retention during winter) it is lia-ble to cause disease in the bee, just thesame as in the human body. Mr. Cowan,the author of the book I mentioned at theoutset, says: From the colon, w)iat roniaiiis of the luidlgestedfood is expelled by the anal oi)eiiiiig. For this pur-pose strong- muscles exist, by which the colon iscompressed and the excreta ejected. winter it is retained until voided on their firstfjigrht. So you see. then, that bad food makesm schief. just the same as it does in the hu-man body, and it is in this tliat the over-plus of faeces is stored during winter. HOW THE BEE MAKES HONEY. After the nectar is gathered it is thentransferred from the tongue to the oesopha-gus and thence to the honey-stomach, G. Itlias been shown rei)eatedly by experimentthat there are many more pollen grains inthe nectar tlian in honey : hence the littlestomach-mouth II comes into play in sepa-
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HONEY-BEE DISSECTED : AFTER AVITZGALL. The quantity of the excreta voided, usually of adark brown c(jlor, is regulated by the nature of thefood; bad honey, an improper substitute for honey(such as glucose) i)roducing a larger amount, whilegood honey and good syrup produce less, a largerproportion of it being digested and absorbed. It is,therefore, impoitant that bi-es sliould liave goodfood, as, in a liealtliy condition, woi-kers never voidtheir fseces in the hive, but on tiie wing. In the rating the grains from the honey. On ar-rival at the hive, the bee regurgitates—thatis, expels the contents of the honey-sac intothe cell; but during its stay in the honey-sac the nectar has imdergone a change;that is, it has been converted, says Mr. Cow-an, from the cane sugar of nectar into thegrape sugar of honey, by the agency of acertain gland. This sustains the position APPENDIX. 399 held so persistently by Piof. Cook, and hisview is doubtless correct. But the bee may not resurjfitate the

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