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‘ covered, and yet the queens were impregnated, 
^ and laid their eggs*. 
“ ‘ The above experiment was repeated with 
^ pieces of cOmb, containing eggs only, in six 
^ boxes, but no preparations were made towards 
‘ producing a queen f. 
“ ‘ The experiment of producing a queen bee 
fi’om a maggot was repeated every month of the 
‘ year, even in November J. 
“ ‘ A maggot three days old was procured from 
‘ a friend, inclosed in an ordinary cell, and shut 
‘ up with a piece of comb, containing eggs and 
maggots. That three days old was formed into 
a queen, and all the other maggots and eggs 
‘ were destroyed §. 
• “ In above a hundred experiments a queen 
* has been formed from maggots three days oldlj.’^ 
* “ Here is a wonder of another kind : queens laying eggs, 
which (we must suppose Mr. Schirach meant we should believe) 
they hatched, without the influence of the male.” 
f ''Why eggs, which we must conceive hatched, and produced 
maggots, did not form queens, one cannot imagine.” 
:{; " In which montli, as bees never swarm, there could be no 
occasion for mothers, or supernumerary queens, and still each 
experiment produced a handsome queen. This is' as singular an 
observation as any. In this country, and in all similar ones, bees 
hardly breed after July, and by the beginning of September there 
is hardly a chrysalis to be seen; yet these bred till Nov'^ember, 
and even laid eggs.” 
§ " Why did the bees destroy them in this experiment, and 
not in others ?” 
II “ The working bees, from the above experiments, are con- 
sidered as all females, although the ovaria are too small for ex- 
amination. , 
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