hive-bee

Difficult to understand or believe in ordinary instances, such _consensus_-inheritance seems impossible in cases like that of the hive-bee.

Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin

In Australia the imported hive-bee is rapidly exterminating the small, stingless native bee.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

Conscience in man may, in fact, be compared to the sting of a hive-bee, which, so far from conducing to the welfare of its possessor, cannot function, even in a single instance, without occasioning its death.

Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

As in the cells of the hive-bee, so here, the three plane surfaces in any one cell necessarily enter into the construction of three adjoining cells.

VIII. Instinct. Special Instincts 1909

As natural selection acts only by the accumulation of slight modifications of structure or instinct, each profitable to the individual under its conditions of life, it may reasonably be asked, how a long and graduated succession of modified architectural instincts, all tending towards the present perfect plan of construction, could have profited the progenitors of the hive-bee?

VIII. Instinct. Special Instincts 1909

I have attempted to show how much light the principle of gradation throws on the admirable architectural powers of the hive-bee.

XV. Recapitulation and Conclusion 1909

It can be clearly shown that the most wonderful instincts with which we are acquainted, namely, those of the hive-bee and of many ants, could not possibly have been acquired by habit.

VIII. Instinct. Instincts Comparable with Habits, but Different in Their Origin 1909

At the other end of the series we have the cells of the hive-bee, placed in a double layer: each cell, as is well known, is an hexagonal prism, with the basal edges of its six sides bevelled so as to join an inverted pyramid, of three rhombs.

VIII. Instinct. Special Instincts 1909

As far as instinct alone is concerned, the wonderful difference in this respect between the workers and the perfect females, would have been better exemplified by the hive-bee.

VIII. Instinct. Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection as Applied to Instincts: Neuter and Sterile Insects 1909

By such modifications of instincts which in themselves are not very wonderful, —hardly more wonderful than those which guide a bird to make its nest, —I believe that the hive-bee has acquired, through natural selection, her inimitable architectural powers.

VIII. Instinct. Special Instincts 1909