QUEEN ORGANS. 
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rings on either side of the honey sac and chyle 
stomach. Like the testes, they are tubular glands, 
and on each side there are from i8o to 200 tubes, 
55* — Ovaries of Queen, Worker, and Fertile Worker. 
or follicles^ interlaced with fine tracheal ducts, which 
connect the ovarian tubes into bundles. 
The development of the eggs takes place in the 
ovarian tubes. The ovum presents all the features of 
a cell, with the cell substance, consisting of proto- 
plasm and the nucleus, or ^ germinal vesicle.’ The 
first germ cell appears at the upper blind end (Fig. 56) 
of the tube, and as it becomes developed (by a process 
