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to go off with swarms. I have noticed some difference 

 of opinion in regard to the largest number of royal cells, 

 ever found in a single hive. Huber is denounced by 

 Huish, for asserting that he discovered twenty-seven in 

 a single hive; and he (Huish) contends, that no hive 

 ever contained at once, more than seven ; but I have 

 myself, the present season, taken twenty-two from one 

 hive, and seventeen from another, but they were not all 

 perfect cells. There are always more or less royal cells 

 that are not completed, in every case ; for, as soon as a 

 certain number are so far advanced, that the young 

 sovereigns are sure of being perfectly developed, the re- 

 maining cells are discontinued. 



It should be borne in mind, that these royal cells 

 are not completed, and then made the receptacles of the 

 eggs ; but when about half constructed, they receive the 

 egg ; and as the larvae* progress, the cells are completed. 

 These half-constructed cells, resemble a,ii acorn, devoid 

 of the nut. 



DIFFERENT FOOD PROVIDED FOR THE YOUNG aUEENS. 



When the royal cells have received the eggs, and 

 they become hatched out, the workers provide different 

 food for the larvae from that which is fed to workers 

 and drones. This food, which has been termed royal 



*Larv(B is the term given to the worms or grubs until the ceUs 

 are sealed. From the seaHng of the cells, to fuU development, a 

 nymph, pupa or crysalis; yet the term larva is properly applied, 

 by some naturalists, during the whole period of the embryo state. 



