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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
181
Then
the
work
of
the
nursing
bees
begins.
In
two
or
three
days
each
egg
has
become
a
tiny
maggot
or
larva,
and
the
nursing
bees
put
into
its
cell
a
mixture
of
pollen
and
honey
which
they
have
prepared
in
their
own
mouths,
thus
making
a
kind
of
sweet
bath
in
which
the
larva
lies.
In
five
or
six
days
the
larva
grows
so
fat
upon
this
that
it
nearly
fills
the
cell,
and
then
the
bees
seal
up
the
mouth
of
the
cell
with
a
thin
cover
of
wax,
made
of
little
rings
and
with
a
tiny
hole
in
the
centre.
As
soon
as
the
larva
is
covered
in,
it
begins
to
give
out
from
its
under-lip
a
whitish,
silken
film,
made
of
two
threads
of
silk
glued
together,
and
with
this
it
spins
a
covering
or
cocoon
all
round
itself,
and
so
it
remains
for
about
ten
days
more.
At
last,
just
twenty-one
days
after
the
egg
was
laid,
the
young
bee
is
quite
perfect,
lying
in
the
cell
as
in
Fig.
57,
and
she
begins
to
eat
her
way
through
the
cocoon
and
through
the
waxen
lid,
and
scrambles
out
of
her
cell.
Then
the
nurses
come
again
to
her,
stroke
her
wings
and
feed
her
for
twenty-four
hours,
and
after
that
she
is
quite
ready
to
begin
work,
and
flies
out
to
gather
honey
and
pollen
like
the
rest
of
the
workers.
By
this
time
the
number
of
working
bees
in
the
hive
is
becoming
very
great,
and
the
storing
of
honey
and
pollen-dust
goes
on
very
quickly.
Even
the
empty
cells
which
the
young
bees
have
left
are
cleaned
out
by
the
nurses
and
filled
with
honey;
and
this
honey
is
darker
than
that
stored
in
clean
cells,
and
which
we
always
call
"virgin
honey"
because
it
is
so
pure
and
clear.
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