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BEE CULTURE. 15 
eges from worker cells and supply them. By feeding the 
embryo Queen with royal jelly, the egg that would have pro- 
duced a Worker, had it remained in a Worker cell, becomes 
a Queen. 
The Ovaries of the Queen, occupying a large portion of 
the abdomen, will be found to be two pear-shaped 
bodies, composed of 160 to 180 minute tubes, the tubes 
being bound together by enveloping air vessels. These are 
the ovaries, of which a highly magnified view is here given. 
Fia. 3.—The Ovaries of the Queen. 
The germs of the eggs originate in the upper ends of the 
tubes which compose the ovary, and the eggs develop in their 
onward passage, so that at the time of the busy laving season, 
each one of the tubes will contain, at its lower end, one or 
more mature eggs, with several others in a less developed 
state following them. These tubes terminate on each side 
in the oviduct, through which the egg passes into the 
vagina ; and, in the cut, an egg will be seen in the oviduct, 
on the right. (Fig. 3). A globular sac will be noted, 
attached to the main oviduct by a short, tubular stem. 
A French naturalist, M. Audouin, first discovered the true 
