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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
182
At
last,
after
six
weeks,
the
queen
leaves
off
laying
worker-
eggs,
and
begins
to
lay,
in
some
rather
larger
cells,
eggs
from
which
drones,
or
male
bees,
will
grow
up
in
about
twenty
days.
Meanwhile
the
worker-bees
have
been
building
on
the
edge
of
the
cones
some
very
curious
cells
(q,
Fig.
57)
which
look
like
thimbles
hanging
with
the
open
side
upwards,
and
about
every
three
days
the
queen
stops
in
laying
drone-eggs
and
goes
to
put
an
egg
in
one
of
these
cells.
Notice
that
she
waits
three
days
between
each
of
these
peculiar
layings,
because
we
shall
see
presently
that
there
is
a
good
reason
for
her
doing
so.
The
nursing
bees
take
great
care
of
these
eggs,
and
instead
of
putting
ordinary
food
into
the
cell,
they
fill
it
with
a
sweet,
pungent
jelly,
for
this
larva
is
to
become
a
princess
and
a
future
queen
bee.
Curiously
enough,
it
seems
to
be
the
peculiar
food
and
the
size
of
the
cell
which
makes
the
larva
grow
into
a
mother-bee
which
can
lay
eggs,
for
if
a
hive
has
the
misfortune
to
lose
its
queen,
they
take
one
of
the
ordinary
worker-larvae
and
put
it
into
a
royal
cell
and
feed
it
with
jelly,
and
it
becomes
a
queen-bee.
As
soon
as
the
princess
is
shut
in
like
the
others,
she
begins
to
spin
her
cocoon,
but
she
does
not
quite
close
it
as
the
other
bees
do,
but
leaves
a
hole
at
the
top.
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