The Queen. 101 
If Queen Apis’s strength were used up 
in digesting food, for it takes a good deal 
of strength to digest food properly, how 
do you suppose she could lay all those 
eggse 
She could not possibly do it. The 
workers seem to know this, and so they 
save her strength in every possible way. 
They give her an abundance of the best 
of food, and they do all the work, not even 
asking her to take any care of the little bee- 
babies when they are hatched. 
