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narrower than the thorax. The wings are shorter than 

 the body of the queen. The lower joint of h^ hind 

 legs is flat and has no fringe of hairs around it. It could 

 not be used for a pollen basket. 



This bee is a male, called a drone because he does no 

 work. His head is narrower than the thorax, like the 

 queen bee's. His eyes are not at all like the queen's or 

 the worker's but meet on the top of his head, like a fly's. 

 His wings are longer than his body. He has no pollen 

 basket, but a very large upper joint on each hind foot. 



Fig. 3. tig. 5. 



A colony may contain from twenty thousand to fifty 

 thousand workers, and in summer from one thousand 

 to two thousand drones, but never more than one queen 

 at a time. When a new queen comes out of her cell, the 

 bees " swarm," that is, the old queen leads a part of them 

 away to form another colony. Or, if two queens do 

 escape from their cells at the same time, a duel takes 

 place which ends only with the death of one of the rivals. 



