Titlebook: Honeybees and Wax; An Experimental Natu H. R. Hepburn Book 1986 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986 agriculture.animals.biology.plants

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Metamorphosis of Waxthey are of the same general outline as are the cuticular surfaces of the wax mirrors on which they form (Fig. 3.1), those of the last pair of wax mirrors being somewhat smaller than the more uniform anterior mirror pairs (Huber 1814; Dreyling 1903). The wax scales vary in thickness depending upon t

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The Construction of Cellscts have been very largely intractable for centuries. Nonetheless, we now have sufficient information, from observation and experiment, to provide a general view of comb-building. Meyer (1952) and Meyer and Ulrich (1952) published lucid and concise accounts of comb-building for which all constructio

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The Construction of Combsms. The space between combs, effected by the bees themselves, is the very fundament of practical beekeeping. The realisation of the importance of this space is contained in the correspondence of Langstroth (Naile 1942), but is nowhere explicit in his laborious account of its management (Langstroth 1

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The Brood Nestybees expand their nests with the warmth of spring and its abundance of nectar and fresh pollen for the rearing of brood (Butler 1609). Unfortunately, this old truth hides a horrible conundrum in which the role of brood as a stimulus for wax production lies hidden among many other complex and interd

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The Queen possibility that the queen bears a specific relationship to the synthesis and secretion of wax as well as to comb-building is a more recent idea. Indeed, De Reaumur (1740) was the first to note that a caged colony of queenless bees had constructed comb after 2 days’ confinement. However, he had giv

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