48 A Modern Bee-Farm 
the busy hum of the multitude, like some miserably 
degraded being, she knows not nor cares not whither. 
The Case of the Worker. 
If we should be so callous as to continue the process, and 
remove a worker's feelers, we should find that she will forget 
all her various duties. She will not help to feed the young, 
will even forget to feed herself; she will gather no more 
honey, and will help to build no more waxen cells ; she will 
not even be aware she has a weapon of offence ; and dike 
an outcast, knowing no friends, she will wander helplessly 
beyond the shelter and luxuries of the hive. 
The Case of the Drone. 
The drone treated in like manner will never seek a mate, 
he will neglect to prey upon the golden stores that he never 
helped to gather, and will not even solicit food from the 
workers. He, too, like the more useful members of the 
hive, when thus maltreated, will blunder forth never to 
return. 
The Sex of Eggs. 
It may be mentioned that occasionally a neuter or 
worker, or several of them, will, in the absence of a fertile 
queen, take up the business of depositing eggs. Among 
some varieties, such as Cyprians and Syrians, this peculi- 
.arity is noticed at times even while a fertile queen is in 
the hive. 
The normal queen, as a rule, deposits only one egg in a 
cell; the laying worker, however, while very rarely doing 
likewise, will usually place numerous eggs in each cell over 
a limited space. These,. or rather one in each cell, as: 
ultimately left by the nurse bees, result in useless, or non- 
virile males. 
It also occasionally happens that a virgin queen fails to 
