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altogether wrong when he said bees sat 
upon their eggs like hens. 
In about three days the eggs hatch, but 
not into pretty downy bees with gauzy 
wings. No, indeed! If you were to see 
what hatches out of a bee’s egg you would 
not imagine that queer \ 
thing could ever make a bee. } 
It is a little white atom, 
with no legs and no —t 
and looks like a maggot. // 
Here is a picture of one very much 
enlarged. It may not look like a bee, 
but still it is a baby bee. 
If you do not like to call it a bee, you 
may call ita Jarva. For larva is the name 
we give to the first form of an insect after 
it leaves the egg. 
This little larva is born hungry, and the 
kind nurse-bees, knowing that, feed it 
with plenty of—what shall I call it? Bee- 
milk, perhaps. This bee-milk is manu- 
factured by the nurses in glands in their 
