RAISING AND INTRODLXTIOX OF QUEENS. 353 
manner, laying, generally, many eggs in a cell, some- 
times as many as a dozen being found confusedly 
heaped together. Some writers have erroneously stated 
that several eggs in a cell is conclusive evidence of 
the presence of a fertile worker, overlooking an 
exception of not infrequent occurrence in modern 
apiaries. Should a good queen be taken from a strong 
stock, and placed in a nucleus where she has only a 
small number of cells to receive her abundant eggs, 
she will, having supplied all, go over them again and 
again, until the appearance presented by the amateur 
ovipositing of the fertile worker is produced. A young 
queen raised in a nucleus will often do the same thing. 
The fertile worker’s eggs, for reasons fully argued 
in Vol. I., page 223, produce drones only, which, 
bejng formed in worker-cells, oblige the extension of 
the latter by extraordinarily prominent and convex 
sealing, as found in the hives of drone-breeding queens. 
The drones thus produced are smaller than the average, 
but they have virile powers (see page 207, Vol. I.). 
The theory advanced by Huber, and supported by 
Dzierzon, that fertile workers have, by accident, 
received some royal jelly through occupying cells 
adjacent to queen-cells, needs no refutation, for we 
have already shown that “royal jelly” — so named in 
ignorance of the facts — is given to all workers and 
drones in ' their earlier larval stages. These little 
plagues have turned up in my stocks where no 
queens have been produced. They are the counter- 
part of the laying workers of the semi-social bees ; 
but the manner in which their normally latent power 
of ovipositing is brought forth admits of no easy ex- 
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