The Young Queens 
If the hive be displaced, therefore, many 
bees will lose their way, except in the case 
of their having been carried far from their 
former home, and finding the country to be 
completely transformed that they had grown 
to know perfectly within a radius of two or 
three miles; for then, if care be taken to 
warn them, by means of a little gangway 
connecting with the alighting-board at the 
entrance to the hive, that some change has 
occurred, they will at once proceed to seek 
new bearings and create fresh landmarks. 
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And now let us return to the city that is 
being repeopled, where myriad cradles are 
incessantly opening, and the solid walls even 
appear to be moving. But this city still 
lacks a queen. Seven or eight curious 
structures arise from the centre of one of 
the combs; and remind us, scattered as they 
are over the surface of the ordinary cells, of 
the circles and protuberances that appear so 
strange on the photographs of the moon. 
They are a species of capsule, contrived of 
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