IN FIELD AND HIVE WITH THE BUSY HONEYBEE 



WORKERS TAKE RINGSIDE SEATS AS T\\'0 RIVAL QUEENS FIGHT TO A FINISH 



In such struggles for supremacy, the battle is interrupted by the onlookers only when it appears 

 both may die. Here a golden Italian queen is about to sting to death her darker adversary below, a 

 gray Caucasian. Should their own mother be killed, bees will readily accept the new queen. 



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A WORK-WEARY FIELD BEE PASSES ITS LOAD TO A YOUNG NURSE AT THE HIVE 

 Wings tattered and torn, golden hair gone from its body, this aged black, but once yellow bee is 

 about to expire. The gray bee (right) is an immigrant from the Caucasus Mountains, the yellow ones 

 being from Italy. Both kinds are thoroughly at home m the United States. 



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