 | John Platts - 1876 - 986 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...observed this substance, in my examination of the working beu, I was at a loss to say what it was : I asked mvself if JJ it were scales forming', and whether... | |
 | John Platts - 1882 - 558 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...between each scale of the under side of the belly. When 1 first observed this substance, in my examination of the work:ng bee, I was at a loss to say what... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1890 - 536 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 be called an external eecretion of oil, and I have found that it is formed between each scale of the under side of the belly."... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1901 - 702 pages
...which he proved to be secreted , not collected , by the animal." Ottlcij's Life of Bunter, p. 122. „The wax is formed by the bees themselves; it may...between each scale of the under side of the belly." Observations on Бее», in Hunter'» Works IV. 433. M0) „In the terminating part there are a number... | |
 | Eva Crane - 1999 - 714 pages
...wide-ranging observations on bees in a glass hive, and observed them producing wax. He concluded that 'the wax is formed by the bees themselves; it may be called an external secretion of oil'. Finally, in 1793 Francois Huber (from Mile Jurine's observations) found plates of a substance apparently... | |
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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. 
