BEE CULTURE, 1$ 
months, and from recent experiments it is ascertained that. ir 
does not exceed six or eight weeks in the height of the honey 
season. Those reared in the fall, having little out-door work 
to perform, will live till the spring. None of them die or 
Fie. 8.—Anterior Leg of Worker, magnified. 
old age, but the majority work themselves to death, and many 
are killed through other causes. 
BROOD. 
The egg is laid by the Queen, in the bottom of the cell ; in 
three days it hatches into a small, white worm, called larva, 
which being fed by the bees, increases rapidly in size ; when 
this larva nearly fills the cell, it is closed up by the bees. ' 
Fie. 9.—Eggs and Brood. 
The time usually taken for this process is eight days for the 
Worker or Queen, and 94 days for the Drone. 
The Workers will develop from the egg in 21 days; gath 
ering honey from about 16 days after emerging from the cell, 
The Drones will hatch in 24 days, and if the weather is 
propitious they will “fly” in a few days‘after. The Queens 
