20 SUCCESSFUL BEE-KEEPING. 
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looking for all the world like a pea-nut de 
pending perpendicularly from the comb, 
with its smaller end downward. Five days 
more, and the bees remove the wax Cov- 
ering from its tip, exposing a light brown 
silky substance, which is the cocoon spun 
by the young bee while in process of trans- 
= formation from a worm to a winged in- 
9-—Capped over. sect. Two to three days more and 
there emerges a bee which, but for our enterference, would have 
been a worker, but which is now metamorphosed into a perfect 
queen! Almost immediately she seeks 
the rival royal cells, and, biting open 
their sides near the base, stings the luck- 
i = less infants in their very cradles. The 
Se bees look quietly on until the deed of 
ms ai) vi death is done, when they drag forth the 
lifeless bodies from the cells and from 
the hive ; unless, indeed, the hive be full 
i of bees to overflowing, in which case the 
10.—-Hatched. first emerging queen is prevented by the 
AGM) bees from destroying her rivals, and one is- 
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cn sues with a young swarm. Thus, we can 
N+ sometimes compel a swarm to issue even from a 
A 7 gore hive, by removing the queen ; or, by in- 
Ewa troducing a queen cell so protected that the 
i [auoen can not get to it. 
It sometimes happens that the young queen 
ied’ fails to return to the hive—such a swarm 
On becomes hopelessly queenless ; the bees scem 
ae utterly bereft of their faculties, refusing to 
‘work more than from hand to mouth, are irri 
table, quarrel with, and destroy each other. 
