Smithsonian Report. 1961. — Hambleton 



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1. Stages of worker bee from egg to full-grown lar\'a. In a period of five days the newly 

 hatched larva increases in weight 1,500 times. 



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2. Stages of worker bee from full-grown lar\"a to adult. Twenty-one days are required from 

 the time an egg is laid until tl.e new adult emerges from the cell. 



