10 Thr lluhit.s of the Uoneiihce 



lliou^li it takes the worker twenty-one days to com- 

 plete its development, the queen passes throui>h all the 

 stages and reaches a considerably larger size in but 

 sixteen days. 



Before leaving the subject of the raising of queens 

 it might be well to state that if, for some reason, a 

 queen is killed in the hive, or by chance gets lost, the 

 workers can at any time replace her by the same 



QUEEN-BEE^ MAGNIFIED. 



metliod, provided, of course, they have worker larvas 

 on which to work. In the same Avay they will replace 

 an old queen when she begins to show signs of de- 

 creased power of egg-laying, so that this peculiar 

 performance is not characteristic of swarming only. 

 In the swarming season, at about the time the new 

 queens are ready to leave their cells, the old queen 

 leaves the hive and takes with her part of the workers, 

 this being known as swarming. This generally takes 

 place in the morning of a warm pleasant day. It 



