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The queen is the only perfectly developed 

 female in the hive, as the workers are imper- 

 fectly developed females; and though the bees 

 may upon the death of the queen introduce 

 a laying worker, as the head of the hive, yet 

 the laying worker being imperfectly developed, 

 and never having mated with a drone, will lay 

 only drone eggs, so that in time the colony will 

 be made up of drones and become extinct. 



Sometimes a virgin with imperfect wing 

 development is not able to accomplish a mat- 

 ing, and will lay nothing but drone eggs. 

 This phenomenon is called parthenogenesis, 

 or "generation from a virgin," and was first 

 discovered by Dzierzon of Germany; it must 

 be regarded as one of the most remarkable 

 discoveries of science. 



In appearance the queen is very easily 

 distinguished by even the novice, for while 

 she is not so bulky as the drones, she has a 

 body considerably more elongated than the 

 workers, and is decidedly waspish-looking. 

 Usually she is slow in her movements, though 



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