94 HUMBLE CREATURES. 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE QUEEN. — HEE METHOD OP LAYING EGGS. ■WONDEB- 



FTJL PHENOMENA ACCOMPANYING THE INSTINCTIVE DEPOSI- 

 TION OE THE EGGS OF ■WORKERS, DRONES, AND QUEENS IN 

 THEIR RESPECTIVE CELLS.— DZIERZON'S DISCOVERIES AND 

 THEORIES. — SIEBOLD AND OWEN ON THE LAYING OP UNPBB- 

 TILIZED OVA. — INTERESTING EXPBBOIENT BY HUBEB, AND 

 REVIEW OP THE THEORIES OF DZIERZON, SIEBOLD, AND 

 HUBER. — PARTHENOGENESIS, OR POWER OF THE VIRGIN 

 QUEEN TO PRODUCE PERFECT OFFSPRING. — THE LARVA ; 

 ITS ORGANIZATION. — METAMORPHOSIS INTO THE PUPA AND 

 IMAGO. — OPERATIONS OF THE NUBSB-BBES DURING THE 

 TRANSFORMATION. — REFLECTIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT 

 OF THE BEE AND THAT OP THE MAN. — OPERATIONS OP 

 WORKERS AFTER THE BEES LEAVi: THE CELLS. — BIRTH OP 

 YOUNG QUEEN. — UNNATURAL CONDUCT OF THE PARENT. — 

 VOGT'S interesting account OF A COMBAT BETWEEN TWO 

 QUEENS. — THE DRONES. — BEE COURTSHIP AND MATRIMONY 

 — ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF A QUEEN BY WORKERS. — 

 PRINCIPLE UPON WHICH THEY OPERATE. — SUMMARY. 



For the better coinpreliension of the history of the 

 Queen Bee, and of her relations to the hive, we must 

 commence at a period when her life is already some- 

 what advanced, and state that the fertile queen passes 

 the winter in the hive along with a number of workers, 

 but without drones (who are, as before mentioned, 

 slaughtered on the approach of winter) . Should the 

 swarm be transferred to a new hive, the queen begins 



