PRACTICAL BEEKEEPING 19 
those fully developed for reproduction, and known as the queens, 
and those whose reproductive organs are undeveloped, but which 
are more highly developed along other lines and which serve as the 
laborers of the colony and are called workers. The males are the 
drones and do no work, but they are absolutely necessary in any 
apiary unless fertilized queens are to be continually introduced as 
needed from some other apiary. An ordinary:colony will have one 
queen, two to three hundred drones, and twenty to thirty thousand 
workers. 
Fig. 6—Queen cells and worker brood in various stages (Benton, Manual 
of the Honey Bee, U. S. Department of Agriculture.) 
We have said that the queens and workers come alike from the 
fertilized eggs. The difference in development is due to the charac- 
ter and amount of food supplied the growing larvae. The time spent 
in the egg stage after deposition is alike for all, three days. The 
eggs then hatch into small white grubs or larvae and remain in this 
stage five and a half days for the queen, or five days for the worker. 
For the first three days the larvae are fed the secretion from the 
glands of the head of the nurse bees (young bees less than two weeks 
old in general.) Then the worker larvae are fed on honey and 
later pollen until the pupa state of thirteen days. The larva des- 
