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honey and digested pollen in the worker’s instance, 
and by honey and raw pollen for the males. 
The queen-grub alone receives bee-milk, of a 
specially rich kind and in unlimited quantity, for the 
whole of her larval life. This ‘royal jelly,” as 
the old bee-masters termed it, is literally poured into 
the capacious queen-cell. For the whole five days 
of her existence as a larva she actually bathes in it 
up to the eyes. But, as far as is known, she 
receives no other food during this time. The 
regular order of her development, and of that of the 
worker-bee, during the five days of the grub stage 
has been carefully studied, and it is curious to note 
that the very time when the queen’s special organs 
of motherhood begin to show themselves coincides 
exactly with the moment at which the worker-grub’s 
allowance of bee-milk is cut down and other food 
substituted. 
This, no doubt, explains why these organs in the 
adult worker-bee are so elementary as to be 
practically non-existent, and accounts for the 
queen’s generous growth in other directions. But 
it leaves us completely in the dark as to the reason 
for the worker’s subsequent elaboration of such 
organs as the pollen-carrying device, the so-called 
wax-pincers, and the wax-secreting glands, of which 
the queen possesses none. Nor are we able to see 
how the giving or withholding of the bee-milk 
should furnish the queen with a long curved sting 
and the worker with a short straight one; nor how 
mere manipulation of diet can result in making the 
two so dissimilar in temperament and mental attri- 
butes—the worker laborious, sociable, almost 
preternaturally alert of mind, and withal essentially 
