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comes forth perfect and in no way resembling the little white grub 

 that was so careful to hide herself behind the delicate but strong 

 lacy fabric that she had constructed to produce this her last or 

 final transformation. It is a miraculous change. The inanimate 

 bee-egg to be transformed into a wriggling footless grub is strange 

 and wonderful. But for this apodal grub to be resurrected in the 

 course of a few days into a beautifully-formed four-winged insect 

 — an insect capable of both terrestrial and aerial locomotion, i8 

 infinitely more so. 



Queens. 



