8 BEE-KEEPING FOR PROFIT 
When a ruling queen realises that a queen 
grub is being reared in the hive, the sex-hatred 
of a possible rival soon manifests itself, and were 
it not for the watchful care of the workers the 
young queen’s career would soon be ended. 
But the old queen is put virtually under arrest, 
and not allowed to venture near the queen 
cells. Her agitation increases until she sum- 
mons together all who are willing to follow her 
and leaves the hive. This exodus of a queen 
and her adherents is known as ‘‘a swarm.” 
(See page 44.) 
The queen bee can always be distinguished 
by her greater size, while the increased length 
of her legs makes her still more prominent 
among the workers. If it is wished to prevent 
the rearing of queens in the hive, all that is 
necessary is for the bee-keeper to cut out the 
queen cells from the combs, and give the bees 
additional room to store the food they gather. 
The Worker Bee.—The normal worker bee 
is an undeveloped female and a true amazon. 
She is utterly indifferent to the drone, and is, 
of course, unable to propagate her species. In 
some cases, however, the ovaries of aworker are 
so far developed that she is able to produce eggs 
which are necessarily unfertile. Such a worker 
is anuisance in a modern hive worked for profit. 
