- 'TIM f QtJE£N-B'EE* 
half au hour as -the former. The same 
experiment was made on queens* 20, 
25, and 30 clays old, and all became 
fertile after a single impregnation* 
But it is a remarkable fact in the 
history of the queen-bee ; that when 
her impregnation f$ retarded till the 
twenty second day of her existence, 
she can lay only the eggs of -drones, 
and will produce no other during her 
her whole life. Whereas, if fertilised 
during the first fifteen days of her 
life, she lays the eggs of both work¬ 
ers and drones. In 46 hours after 
fecundation, the qiieen begins to lay 
workers eggs. It is commonly in the 
month of June, in this country, that 
