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with great regularity during the warm weather, sometimes 

 laying as many as several thousand eggs in a day. Most 



FIG. 319. Section of a Bee Farm. 



of the eggs are fertilized by the sperm cells of the males. 

 The unfertilized eggs develop into males. The workers 



Queen 



Worker 

 FIG. 320. 



Drone 



do all the work of the hive. They make the hcwiey and 

 the wax and feed the larvae or grubs as they hatch, 



