From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
4 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
H. R. Glennie (private collection)
Summary:
Variations in sizes of bees’ cells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Variations in sizes of bees’ cells.
Has studied CD’s Jamaican hive-bees and finds them identical to Apis mellifica.
Discusses the structure of wasps’ and bees’ nests
and the occurrence of winged and apterous individuals within some insect genera and species.