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SYSTEMS OF HUBER AND HUISH. 



Wax-workers, who make 

 no wax, but who neverthe- 

 less construct the cells. 



Royal jelly makers, who 

 fabricate an extraordinary 

 liquid, wherewith a queen 

 is generated whenever one is 

 wanted. 



VII. 



Nurse-bees, whose office 

 it is to attend upon the 

 brood. 



VIII. 



Black bees, who are born 

 only to be starved to death. 



2. 

 The bees sometimes allow 

 two queens in a hive, a big 

 one and a little one ; the 

 latter only laying the eggs 

 of males — allowed by Kirby, 

 and acquiesced in by Rennie. 



3. 



The queen oviposits at all 

 seasons of the year, and even 

 in winter. 



4. 



It is the mother queen 

 who departs with the first 

 swarm. 



2. 

 The bees never allow but 

 one queen in a hive. 



The queen oviposits only 

 in the spring and summer, 

 and never in the winter. 

 4. 



It is the young queen who 

 departs with the first swarm. 



The queen is fecundated The queen is not fecun- 



