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PHYSIOLOGY OF THE HONEY-BEE. 



the bees put them on the unoccupied edges of the comb, where 

 there is plenty of room for such very large cells. 



105. The number of royal cells in a hive varies greatly; 

 sometimes there are only two or three, ordinarily not less 

 than five; and occasionally, more than a dozen. 



Some races of bees have a disposition to raise a greater 

 number of queen-cells than others. At the Toronto meet- 

 ing of the North American Bee-keepers' Association, in Sep- 

 tember, 1883, Mr. D. A. Jones, the noted Canadian importer 

 of Syrian and Cyprian bees, and at that time publisher of 

 the Canadian Bee Journal, exhibited a comb containing about 

 eighty queen-cells, built by a colony of Syrian bees (560). 

 In 1905, Dr. C. C. Miller succeeded in raising one hundred 

 and nineteen queen cells on two combs of brood in a colony 

 of Cyprian bees. (Fig. 22.) Such cases are rare in the hive 

 of any other race. 



Fig. 22. 



QUEEN CELLS BDILT BY CYPRIAN BEES. 



(American Bee Journal.) 



