52 STUDIES IN INSECT LIFE, ETC. 



honey to eat. But she has undergone a resur- 

 rection, and is at first bewildered at the new 

 world into which she has stepped, trembling and 

 feeble. Soon, however, things settle down, her 

 wings expand and harden, her legs lengthen, 

 and without guidance, without experience, she 

 in a short time is beating her wings and dancing 

 over the cells now ready to open for the exit 

 of her younger sisters. Both drones and workers 

 require two days to become really active and 

 capable of full power but half a day suffices 

 for the young queen. 



Neither workers nor drones quit the hive till 

 the sixth day after emergence, but the time of 

 the workers is not wasted ; hanging in motion- 

 less but living garlands, they secrete, from four 

 pairs of " pockets >J situate on the under-side 

 of the abdomen, eight plates of snow-white wax' 

 as light as foam ; they also secrete the royal- 

 jelly and with it feed the larvae ; they carry 

 to the " honey-pots " the honey brought into 

 the hive by older workers ; they press with their 

 heads into the pollen-cells the pollen collected 

 by their elders ; they help the emerging bees 

 into the outer darkness of the hive ; they cleanse 

 the vacated cells, and, standing in parallel rows, 



