 | 1792 - 530 pages
...defcribed hereafter. The wax is formed by the bees themfelves ; it may be called an external feeretion of oil, and I have found that It is formed between each fcale of the under fide of the belly. When I firft obferved this fubftance, not abfolutely determine... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...when hatched will require this substance as food, and which will Inready when the weather is wet. " The wax is formed by the bees themselves ; it may...called an external secretion of oil, and I have found tliat it is formed between each scale of the under .side of the. belly. When I first observed this... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 pages
...with the farina on their legs, and have seen them disposing of it, as will be described hereafter. (c The wax is formed by the bees themselves ; it may...secretion of oil, and I have found that it is formed be. twern each scale of the under side of the belly. When I first observed this substance, in my examination... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 432 pages
...when hatched, will require this substance as food, and which will be ready when the weather is wet. " The wax is formed by the bees themselves ; it may be called an external secretion of oil, and 1 have found that it is formed between each scale of the under side of the belly. When I first observed... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...which is the wax, is the next consideration, with the mode of forming, preparing, or disposing of it. The wax is formed by the bees themselves : it may...of oil ; and I have found that it is formed between the scales of the under side of the belly. When I first observed this substance, in my examination... | |
 | François Huber - 1841 - 410 pages
...nevertheless, as had been made in an equal time when the weather was favourable. Wax, in Dr Hunter's opinion, is formed by the bees themselves ; it may be called an external secretion of oil, and originates between each plate of the under side of the belly. On first observing it, in examining a... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1861 - 606 pages
...wax, which he proved to be secreted, not collected, by the animal." Ottley's Life of Hunter, p. 122. „The wax is formed by the bees themselves ; it may...between each scale of the under side of the belly." Observations on Bees, in Hunter's Works, IV, 433. *49) „In the tenninating part there are a number... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1861 - 646 pages
...collected, by the animal. Ottley's Life of Hunter, p. 122. " The wax is formed by the bees themselve*; it may be called an external secretion of oil, and...between each scale of the under side of the belly." Oufervatanu «» Bees, in Hunter's Works, vol. iv. p. 433. 140 Dr. Adams, in his somewhat hasty Life... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1861 - 648 pages
...collected, by the animal Ottley's Life of Hunter, p. 122. " The wax is formed by the bees themsehw: it may be called an external secretion of oil, and I have found that it s formed between each scale of the under side of the belly." Observation!' Bees, in Hunter's Works,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1867 - 1144 pages
...aliment, or passed into the stomach. He shows that the bee bread is not wax, and concludes that '• the wax is formed by the bees themselves ; it may...of oil, and I have found that it is formed between the scales of the under side of the belly." On examining the bees through glass hives while they were... | |
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The wax is formed by the bees themselves; it may be called an external secretion of oil, and I have found that it is formed between each scale of the under side of the belly. 
