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 

 LAAiA^ is very porous, so the air can 



l)^^\f\ 8'et in. Baby Apis may be 

 'I^^^J^J!^"^ 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 tgg 

 exactly like that of the worker-bees. But 

 this tgg, 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- 



