102 THE BUILDING OF BEES. 
frames, every good piece of worker-comb may be given to 
the bees (286). 
224. As we have seen before (217), while the small 
cells are designated as worker-cells, the large ones, which 
vary greatly in depth and are more especially prepared to 
store honey, and in which the drones are raised, are known 
as store or drone-cells. 
2265. Generally, bees build a larger number of worker 
than of store-cells; yet they do not follow any regulation 
as to the relative proportion in the quantity of each kind. 
Not two colonies, in the same Apiary, will show the same 
number of large cells, even when the hives are of equal 
capacity, and even if the building was done in circumstances 
seemingly identical. You will find a colony whose comb 
will consist of two-thirds worker and one-third store cells, 
the adjacent colony will have but one-sixth of the latter, 
another’a few square inches only. In a hive all the large 
cells are together, in another they are scattered. Some of 
these drone-combs are built from top to bottom of the hive, 
others are at the top only, others at the side, or at the bot- 
tom, or scattered, etc. 
226. These facts, not explainable by themselves, when 
added to the wonderful habits of bees, have led to the theory 
that it was with foresight, with perfect knowledge and for a 
special purpose, that bees construct such a varied propor- 
tion of the two kinds of cells. Bees are represented ag 
knowing the sex of the eggs which each kind of cells will 
receive; and foreseeing that their queen may not live long 
and that the young queens have to be fecundated (120), 
they build large cells in which drones could be raised. 
227. We have demonstrated (218) that bees construct 
their cells without any geometrical calculation. We had 
previously (14:2) established that the queen does not know 
the sex of the eggs she is laying, and although regretting 
to decrease the charm with which bees were surrounded by 
