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has been such as to interfere with the copi- 
ous collection of honey or farina, in these 
circumstances no male eggs will be laid, no 
royal cells founded, and noswarms will issue. 
But in favorable circumstances, the laying 
of royal eggs takes place regularly during 
the laying of those of males, and swarming 
is the consequence. The royal cell is an 
inch in depth, and it has been considered 
difficult to comprehend how the body of the 
the queen can reach to the bottom, so as to 
attach the egg to it; but, in fact, the queen 
lays when the cell is merely founded, and 
not deeper than that of a common Bee, and 
it is not until the precious deposit has been 
made, that the workers lengthen it to the full 
size. ‘The egg destined to produce a queen, 
like that which is laid in a drone cell and 
that of a worker, is three days old before it 
is hatched. As soon as this takes place, the 
royal larva becomes an object of devoted at- 
tention'to the Bees, who watch over and feed 
it with unremitting attention and care. It is 
difficult to form an idea of the anxious care 
