6 THE BEE-KEEPER'’S MANUAL. 
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been laid, an egg is deposited in it,* the work 
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of completion of the cradle being carried on as 
required by the increasing growth of its occupant. 
When finished and closed up, it presents in form 
the appearance of an oblong spheroid, about an 
inch long, usually appended lke a stalactite per- 
* Considering the antipathy of queens to their rivals, it has long 
been supposed that they never themselves lay eg¢s in royal cells, but 
that the workers remove them thereinto from worker cells. Tustances 
of both acts may occur, and yet neither give a rule. Von Berlepsch 
ascribes it to the queen herself (and certainly other facts show that 
her antipathy is not developed till an advanced stage of her rival’s 
existence); he further doubts the possibility of an ege when once 
laid being removed from its original spot, unless by accidental adherence 
to a bee’s body before its glutinous coating has rendered it a fixture. 
Mrs. E. 8. Tupper, however, cites an instance of such removal which 
seems hard to dispute, and Mr. Cheshire and others have noted 
similar ones. But very often, we know, the cell was a worker cell 
when the egg was deposited by the queen, and was not till afterwards 
transformed into a royal one. This indeed may be accepted as the 
general rule, but the whole subject requires further investigation. 
