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baskets, and, on the nnder side of the body, six pockets, 

 from which may be excreted flat plates of wax. They 



are particularly well fed and hang together like a cur- 

 tain, when it is necessary to produce this substance. As it 

 is formed, they pass it 

 to the mouth and make 

 of it a small pellet. 



Later, the queen lays 

 eggs in the larger cells. 

 These eggs are not fer- 

 tilized, and hatch out 

 in twenty-seven days 

 into drones, the males, 

 characterized by larger 

 compound, eyes and no Queen. 



sting. They do not 



work, and are killed off in times of famine, and, in any 

 event, die after they have fertilized a queen. 



The queens are hatched from larger cells in sixteen 



