34 BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 



titions between that and adjoining cells, and rearing 

 a cell in proper form. The forcing process, so to 

 speak, is now commenced, by supplying the larva 

 with a large quantity of royal jelly, instead of the ple- 

 beian food on which it fed for the first few days of its 

 existence. Cells constructed for larva of this kind 

 differ from those constructed for eggs, in two partic- 

 ulars ; in the first place, they are less in size and 

 nearly horizontal, while those constructed for eggs 

 are almost invariably perpendicular, so much so that 

 the embryo queen stands on her head, whilst in the 

 other case she lies almost flat on her back, similar to 

 the workers in the embryo state. When queens 

 raised from larva have emerged, which I have known 

 them to do on the twelfth day from the removal of 

 the old queen, and indeed in one or two instances on 

 the eleventh day, they are less in size, shorter in the 

 body, and of a darker color, being of a greenish 

 brown, very similar to the worker, but destitute of 

 that rich copper brown which so distinctly marks 

 the perfect queen raised direct from the egg. I think 

 it highly probable that to this cause may be traced 

 the anomaly that has puzzled apiarians for ages past, 

 i. e. drone-laying queens and fertile workers, each of 

 which will be noticed elsewhere; and I have no 

 doubt this peculiarity has misled Mr. Quinby and 

 many others in their experiments in rearing artificial 

 queens, as they are generally called. 



In all cases where it is desirable to have bees rear 

 queens other than those they rear of their own ac- 

 cord, comb should be selected having unhatched eggs 



