PRACTICAL BEEKEEPING 15 
ing on through the ejaculator duct, the seminal fluid is stored away 
in the spermatophore, a sack or pouch-like enlargement, the con- 
tents of which, at the time of copulation with the female, is trans- 
fered to the female, thereafter being essential to her reproductive 
function. 
In the female the ova are developed in the two ovaries and 
Fig. 5—Ovarles of Queen, etc. 
A, Abdomen of queen, under side (magnified eight times)—P, petiole; O, 
O, ovaries; hs, position filled by” honey sac; ds, position through which dl- 
gestive system passes; od, oviduct; co. d, common oviduct; B, egg-passing 
oviduct; s, spermatheca; i, intestine; pb, poison bag; p. g., poison gland; st., 
sting; p, palpi. B, rudimentary ovaries of ordinary worker—sp, rudimentary 
spermatheca. C, partially developed ovaries of fertile worker—sp, rudimen- 
tary spermatheca. (From Cheshire by courtesy of L. Upcott Gill, London.) 
pass down the fallopian tubes, or oviducts, to the vagina. Here 
the ova are fertilized from the spermatheca, where the spermatozoa 
from the male or drone bee have been deposited. At this time the 
egg is well formed and has a shell, and the sperm enters through a 
