72 HOW ARE ANIMALS AND PLANTS DEPENDENT? 





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honey to eat. A little of this 

 mixture, known as bee bread, 

 is put into the cells, and the 

 lids covered with wax by the 

 working bees, and the young 

 larvae allowed to pupate. 

 After about two weeks of 

 quiescence in the pupal state, 

 it changes into a fully de- 

 veloped adult and chews its 

 way out of the cell. It takes 

 its place in the hive, first 

 caring for the young as a 

 nurse, later making excur- 

 sions to the open air after 

 food as an adult worker. 



If a new queen is to be 

 produced, several of the cell 

 walls are broken down by 

 the workers, making a large 

 ovoid l cell in which one egg 

 is left. The young bee in this cell is fed during its whole larval life 

 upon royal jelly, and grows into a bee of much larger size than an 

 ordinary worker. When a young queen appears, great excitement 

 pervades the community ; the bees appear to take sides ; some re- 

 main with the young queen in the hive, while others follow the old 

 queen out into the world. This is called swarming. They usually 

 settle around the queen, often hanging to the limb of a tree. While 

 the bees are swarming, certain of the workers, acting as scouts, de- 

 termine on a site for their new home; and, if undisturbed, the 

 bees soon go there and construct their new hive. This instinct is 

 of vital importance to the bees, as it provides them with a means 

 of forming a new colony. A swarm of domesticated bees may be 

 easily hived in new quarters. 



Division of labor in the hive. The work of the hive is divided 

 among the various kinds of bees in a most interesting manner. 



1 Ovoid (6 'void) : egg-shaped. 



C. Clarke 

 A honeybee, in search for nectar, has become cov- 

 ered with grains of hollyhock pollen. 



