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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 



it is commonly called a " worker egg," which is 

 clearly inaccurate, and comes, like other mistakes of 

 this kind, from terms being introduced and made 

 current before the objects named are scientifically 

 understood. The two essential forms of egg are the 

 impregnated and unimpregnated, yielding the neces- 

 sary concomitants of reproduction, the female and 

 the male, the queen and the drone ; and from the 

 former, as the social instinct has been developed, the 



WL..--->W 



Fig. 47.— Larva and Chrysalis of Hive Bee (Magnified Four times). 



A, Larva (full grown)— a, b, c, d, Terminal Segments ; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Segments below 

 Head ; I, Budding Legs ; w, Ditto Wings. B, Condition of Change inter- 

 mediate between Larva and Chrysalis ; Lettering as before. C, Chrysalis ; 

 Lettering as before. 



worker has been produced. Labour has been divided. 

 The queen has lost her domestic arts, which the 

 worker possesses in a perfection never attained by 

 the ancestral types ; while the worker has lost her 

 maternal functions, although she still possesses the 

 needed organs in a rudimentary state. Ovaries she 

 has, but so tiny as only to be found by elaborate 

 dissection. They escaped altogether the vigilance 

 and skill of both Swammerdam and Reaumur, and 



