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BREEDING. 
Hence it would appear reasonable, if sex was decided 
by the ovaries of the queen, in one case, it would be 
in another. 
To allow the bees the power of making three kinds of 
bees from one kind of eggs, which would be virtually 
constituting a third sex, an anomaly not often'found. 
The drones being males, and workers imperfect fe- 
males with generative organs undeveloped, renders 
the anomaly of the third sex unnecessary. On the 
other side it might be said in reply : That if food and 
treatment would create or produce organs of genera- 
tion in the female, by making an egg destined for a 
worker into a queen, (a fact which all apiarians admit,) 
why not food and treatment make the drone? Is 
the difficulty of developing one kind of sexual organs 
greater than another? 
Respecting the anomaly of the eggs of some queens 
producing only drones, the question might be asked, 
Is this more of an anomaly than that of ordinary 
queens which are said to germinate eggs in distinct 
series? It is all out of the usual line. Other animals 
or insects usually produce the sexes promiscuously. 
As we are ignorant of causes deciding sex in any case, 
we must acknowledge mystery to belong to both sides 
of the question here. The stumbling-block of more 
than two sexes, which seems so necessary to make 
plain, is no greater here than with some species of 
ants, that have, as we are told, king, queen, soldier 
and laborer. Four distinct and differently formed 
bodies, all belonging to one. nest, and descended from 
one mother. Whether there are four distinct kinds of 
