The Young Queens 
than in its body, there ensues so considerable 
a change that the bee to which it will give 
birth might almost belong to an entirely 
different race of insects. 
Four or five years will be the period of 
her life, instead of the six or seven weeks 
of the ordinary worker. Her abdomen will 
be twice as long, her colour more golden, 
and clearer; her sting will be curved, and 
her eyes have seven or eight thousand facets 
instead of twelve or thirteen thousand. Her 
brain will be smaller, but she will possess 
enormous ovaries, and a special organ be- 
sides, the spermatheca, that will render her 
almost an hermaphrodite. None of the 
instincts will be hers that belong to a life 
of toil; she will have no brushes, no pockets 
wherein to secrete the wax, no baskets to 
gather the pollen. The habits, the passions 
that we regard as inherent in the bee, will 
all be lacking in her. She will not crave 
for air, or the light of the sun; she will 
die without even once having tasted a flower. 
Her existence will pass in the shadow, in 
the midst of a restless throng, her sole 
occupation the indefatigable search for 
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