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These eggs, if examined on the fourth day 
from their being deposited, will be found 
hatched, anda small worm produced, which 
is floating in a whitish liquid, ascertained to 
be food introduced for the novrishment of 
the infant brood ; and in due time a perfect 
Bee emerges from the cell. But how is this 
living animal generated? The queen lays 
the egg, without doubt, and the insect is 
evolved from it; but how is the egg fecun- 
dated or rendered fertile? Has the queen 
had personal union with the male? No one 
can speak positively tosuch a fact; by what 
other means, then, is this effect produced ? 
The impregnation of the Queen Bee is a 
branch of natural history which has given 
rise to more discussion, than almost any 
other fact connected with the nature of the 
insect. And indeed the difficulty, we might 
almost say impossibility, of obtaining any 
thing like occular evidence on the subject, 
will readily account for the diversity of opin- 
ion that has hitherto prevailed. And we 
ould hope that this difficulty alone, ard not 
ve 
