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ing summer. I know this to be true, from 
my own experience, and also, as the usual 
‘consequence of this appearance of male eggs, 
that the Bees commence building royal cells, 
the queen laysin them, and swarming takes 
place. Now this partial laying of drones’ 
egos takes place only in the case of very early 
swarms, and if the weather be unfavorable, 
it does not happen even in them. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
OF THE BROOD. 
In forty-six hours after impregnation, the 
Queen Bee, as already noticed, begins to lay 
the eggs of workers, and continues to do so, 
without intermission, throughout the season, 
at the rate of between 100 and 200 a day, 
unless cold weather intervene, when her 
operations are suspended, as well as the 
hatching retarded of the eggs already laid. 
