136 The Bee People. 
to see the world,— rather a dark world in 
the hive, one would think. 
Then she puts out her head. 
Then out she comes, a lovely young bee, 
light-colored and downy, and with beauti- 
ful gauzy wings. 
The cap that is put over the young bee 
is very porous, so the air can 
ett get in. Baby Apis may be 
L I tN bottled up with safety, but 
she must not be deprived of air, for if 
she is she will die. 
The queen-bee is hatched from an egg 
exactly like that of the worker-bees. But 
this egg, as we know, lies in a large cell, 
and when it hatches, the nurse-bees fairly 
stuff the queen larva with food. 
The worker infants get very little bee- 
milk; they have to eat honey and bee-bread, 
but the queen infant is fed almost entirely 
upon this precious food, this “royal jelly.” 
It is because she eats so much of this 
that she develops into a queen. Some- 
