10 METAMORPHOSIS 
minutes motionless: This is to 
repose themselves. 
The Drones do not enter the 
cells to repose, hut cluster toge¬ 
ther on the ccmts. 
In Hi/es, there is first the egg; 
then the Dry**, worm, or cater¬ 
pillar; then the chrysalis or nymph ; 
and lastly the pet feet bee. The 
eggs of workers are three days eegr, 
five clays worms, then their cTh 
are ebsed with a wax covering, 
uni the worms spin their cocoons/ 
in doing which they spend 38hours: 
m 3 days 3 feetjimorphcjse* into 
4 oyirphy and passes six ii: fc is 
*A sort of siifeeu web; 
