60 Account of the Queen Bee. 
tige of them. But the young Queen, on the 
roth day of her age, began to lay eggs in 
drone cells, which produced young drones in 
the hive about fixteen days thereafter. Havy- 
ing repeated this laft experiment again and a- 
gain, I can now affirm, with the utmoft con- 
fidence and certainty, that the common, or 
working bees, are endowed with the powerful 
faculty of raifing a Queen bee, from an egg, 
in a common cell, when their community 
fiands in need of one. 
Their method is this: They make choice 
of a common cell with an egg in it, and in- 
ject fome white liquid matter, from their pro- 
bofcis, of a thickifh fubftance. They then 
begin to build upon the edges of the cell, and 
enlarge it. On the third day, it appears fairly 
on the outfide of the comb, in the form of a 
royal cell, and may now be properly fo deno- 
minated. On the fifth day, the cell being now | 
greatly enlarged, and a great deal of the whit- 
ifh matter thrown into it, the royal maggot 
appears in the form of a femicircle, not unlike - 
a new moon, being biggeft in the middle part, 
and fmall at each end. In this form it is to 
be feen for two days, fwimming on the top, 
and 
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