70 BREEDING. 



the time the bee gets out. ■ The covering to the queen's 

 cell is like the drone's, but larger in diameter, and 

 thicker, being lined with a little more silk. 



DISCREPANCY IN TIME IN KEARIN& BROOD AS GIVEN BY 

 HUBER.- 



We are told by most writers, the period of time 

 necessary to perfect from the egg, the three dif- 

 ferent kinds . of bees. Huber leads the way, and 

 the rest, supposing him to be right, repeat in sub- 

 stance his account as follows: That the whole time 

 necessary to perfect a queen frotn the .egg is sixteen 

 days, the worker twenty, and the drone twenty-four 

 days; Huber (as quoted by Harpers) gives the 

 time of each stage of development belonging to each 

 kind of bee ; but is rather unfortunate in arithmetic ; 

 the items, or stages, when added together, " do not 

 prove," as the school-boys say ; that is, he gains -time 

 by making his bee by degrees. He says, first, of the 

 worker, " It remains three days in the egg, five in the 

 grub state, it is thirty-six hours in spinning its cocoon ; 

 in three days it changes to a nymph, passes six in 

 that form, and then comes forth a perfect bee." How 

 do the items add ? 



The egg, 3 days. 



G-rub, 5 " 



Spinning cocoon, . , . 1^ " 

 Changing to a nymph, . . 3 " 

 In that form, 6 " 



18^ days. 

 One and a half days short. We will next see how 



