Bees & Bee-keeping · Scientific & Practical
The Honeyed
Anatomy
of the Hive.
An eight-plate study of the workman bee — head, sting, and pollen-basket dissected by lamplight, set beside the ordered geometry of comb. Toned plate paper, intaglio line, and a wash of amber laid by hand.
Key to the Figures
Fig. VII · the workman bee
Compound head, frontal view
Mandible & proboscis
Hind leg, pollen-basket
Wing, marginal venation
Sting & barbed lancet
Hexagonal cell, lateral
Apis mellifera
The Workman, dissected
drawn from life