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Descriptive Zoology. 



Larv 



go into the pupa state, when the cell is capped over till 



the pupae transform into adult (or imago) bees. 



The drones, being larger than the workers, are developed 



in larger cells. Queen cells are larger than other cells. 



At the season of the year when the bees gitfe regular 



attention to rearing queens, 



Egg ^-^r^^^^^^^ tne queen cells are usually 



built at the bottom or ends 

 of the comb. But if the 

 bees are obliged to produce 

 a queen out of the regular 

 swarming season, the queen 

 cells are made by tearing 

 out the partitions and com- 

 bining three cells into one, 

 which is built out and hangs 

 vertically in front of the 

 comb. In the egg state 

 there is no difference be- 

 tween the queen and the 



Queen 

 cell 



FIG. 36. CELLS CONTAINING EGGS, LAR- 

 v*:, AND PUP,* OF THE HONEYBEE. 



The large, irregular cells are queen cells.- From Worker, but the larva that 

 Jordan and Kellogg's Animal Life. j g ^ become a queen j s f e( J 



on specially prepared food. In the early part. of the sum- 

 mer several queen cells are made ; as soon as a new queen 

 is hatched the old queen tries to kill her ; but the workers 

 protect the new. queen, and the old queen, followed by a 

 part of the workers, departs to establish a new colony, and 

 this is called " swarming." If a number of new queens are 

 hatched at the same time, they may fight for leadership, 

 and the one survivor rules supreme. Or, often, several 

 young queens depart with a swarm. 



The queens that are thus killed are carried out by the 

 workers, and they do the same for any that die in the hive. 



