THE WORKER-BEE. 



perature, or the conditions of the colony. Dzierzon and others 

 wrote that a Avorker-bee can hatch in nineteen to twentj^-one 

 days. Collin says nineteen to twenty-three. That the brood 

 can remain even longer before hatching, is confirmed by the 



Fig. 32. 



NYMPH. 



(Magnified. After Barbo.) 



report of A. Saunier, in the South of France. Having de- 

 prived a hive of all its inhabitants, he found bees, hatching 

 twentv-three davs aftei-wards, that had not even been sealed 



