PHYSIOLOGY AND BEBEDING. 37 



knows when each kind is ready, and the workers know 

 it also. 



The fact that all eggs laid in drone cells will produce 



drones and nothing else, is to be accounted for. There is 



no possibility of setting this aside. The attempt to rear 



^ ' ^ ^fc^r~"'" queens from such has so 



d|| J 1^ ( ^ utterly failed with my- 



jg^ V in^i^ A (» ®®^^ ^^^ others, that we 



™ ^^jF 1 ^H^ ^js ^^^^ ^"^ longer any hope 



1^ ^^ V ^y ^ 9^ success. The reason 



W' ( ! ^9 ,^,^^> undoubtedly is, that eggs 



JPiP ^B VP^W I'^i'i ill drone cells are 



™ ^' (f^lff r not impregnated. Queens 



fffni ^ with faulty wings, or 



flilCl^ otherwise unable to fly 



„. . --^iafflasfflKSiaiw- Q^^ ^Q meet the drones, 



Fig. 5. — BROOD PKOM A DRONE QUEEN . ' 



IN WORKER CELLS. Or such as are raised late 



in the season, when no drones exist, are certain to 

 prove drone layers ; every egg they deposit, whether in 

 worker or drone cells, produces a drone. I have frequently, 

 since obtaining the Italian, reared queens intentionally late 

 in the season, that I may have drone-laying queens for the 

 purpose of raising early drones. Such failed to meet the 

 drones, and were drone layers in consequence.* When- 

 ever the brood of the fertile workers has matured, it has 

 proved to be drones.f No one will pretend that these 



*A drone queen, when laying in woiker cells, does it more irregularly, or the 

 bees do not nurse all that are laid. About half the cells are sealed over after 

 being lengthened at least one-third. It has been recommended to '* destroy such 

 a queen and substitute another; and as the combs are worthless, destroy tliem, 

 and let' the bees build new." 1 have found these combs as good as liew ones, 

 and would advise retaining them. 



tl never witnessed the phenomenon of a fertile worlier nnlil after I had been 

 raising Italian queens in the small rearing boxes for some time. I had used 

 clean drone comb in several of them, and in some that had been without a queen 

 a long lime, I discovered eggs in the ceils. Some contained as many as six, put 

 in rather uningeniously, as if it were the worls of a novice. Some were sticking 



