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QTJEElfrS. 



Old queens often come to this same condition. These 

 we term " spent queens." They will deposit but few 



eggs, which will pro- 

 duce only drones. The 

 judicious bee-keeper will 

 seldom allow his bees to 

 reach this state. I have 

 known swarms that 

 went into winter quar- 

 ters with an apparently 

 good queen, to come out 

 in spring with a drone- 

 layer. Mr. Langstroth 

 Fig. 64.— BROOD FBOM DRONE-LAYING givcs US proof that hun- 



QUEEN IN WORKER-CELLS. ^^^ ^^^ ^^j^ ^Jjj ^^^^^^ 



a prolific queen to this condition. He and others hare 

 exposed fertile queens to a very low temperature, and they 

 were afterwards unable to deposit other than drone eggs. 



Fig. 65. — QUBEN-CBLLS OVER DRONE BROOD. 



It is qaite common for bees that have none but drone 

 eggs, to try to rear a queen from them, but every such 

 effort IS fruitless. Cells ol this kind are shown in fig. 65- 



