Cradle-Cells. i2>7 



times the queen in a hive dies or gets lost. 

 Then what do you suppose the workers 

 do? Why, go to work and make a new 

 queen, of course. 



It is a terrible thing for a hive to be 

 without a queen, and the bees are very 

 unhappy when it happens. But if they 

 have eggs or very young larvae they need 

 not despair. 



They enlarge a worker cell in which 

 lies an tgg or a very young larva, by tearing 

 down the cells next to it. Then they feed 

 the infant thus promoted to royalty upon 

 queen's food, and, lo! the little creature 

 becomes a queen. 



Drones get much more royal jelly than 

 workers, but no amount of feeding or 

 starving will make them anything but 

 drones. 



It takes all the eggs three days to hatch, 

 but the queen larva attains its growth in 

 five and a half days, while it takes the 

 worker six, and the drone six and a half. 



