HONEY BEES THE PRINCIPLE OF OEDEB. 



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she living four years, and 

 the working bee only nine 

 months. But she has to 

 mature and deposit about 

 eight hundred thousand 

 eggs, each egg having to 

 be placed in a separate 

 cell. If, like many insects, 

 she only needed to drop 

 the eggs on some con- 

 venient spot, she would, 

 like them, pass but a brief 

 winged life. But each re- 

 quires separate attention, 

 and though the queen 

 does nothing for six 

 months of each year but 



BEES AX WOttK. 



