Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1897 — The Bee Egg. [ARTICLE]

The Bee Egg.

The egg of a bee when magnified a hundred times, is a beautiful object. It has been compared to a tiny pearl, covered with what ladies call “blonde,” many hundreds of the meshes of which are required to coat it completely. This netting is in a radiating pattern, something like the cordage on a balloon; but the meshes, except at the ends, are hexagonal.