BEE CULTURE. 71 
Fig. £3 shows the legs of a worker bee. The two at the 
left showing the outside ; while the two at the right exhibit 
the appearance of the inside of the legs, /. ¢., that part 
nearest the body. Those at the top of the engraving are the 
anterior, and the lower ones are the posterior legs ; the latter 
showing the “ pollen baskets” at A, A. 
Worker bees being undeveloped females, it is not strange 
that now and then one may be sufficiently developed to lay 
eggs, Some account for this by the possibility that the larva 
Fia. 44.—The Ovaries 
may have been adjacent to the queen cell and received some 
of the royal pabulum, given so plentifully to the queen. 
Prof. Leuckart remarks that “it results entirely from the 
development of ege-germs and eggs in the individual ovarian 
tubes—which proceeds precisely in the manner described in 
the case of the queen.” As they are incapable of meeting 
the drones and becuming fully fertilized, their eggs will only 
produce drones. Fig. 44 presents a view of the genitalia of 
such a bee. It differs from the queen merely in the more 
advanced development of the ovaries. (Fig. 43, A A). 
‘workers deposit the eggs in a very irregular manner, 
caused by the tubes being very imperfectly furnished with 
eggs. 
