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keep that up for two weeks. So, on the whole, it looks more as 

 if there is nothing for them to do, yet that may not be the case at 

 all. Give them more room, more ventilation and more shade. 



Fig. 19. A colony "hanging out" all over its hive; caused by lack of room, lack 

 of shade, and insufficient ventilation. 



Hatching. — Q. My attention has been called to the word 

 "hatch." Do bees hatch more than once? Would it not be better 

 to have the bees hatch once and emerge to come into existence? 



A. You are quite right; it would be better to say that the 

 larva "hatches" from the egg, and the young bee "'emerges" from 

 the cell. Irideed, you will find that quite often the word "emerges" 

 is used in that way, although generally it is said that the young 

 bee hatches out of the cell. 



