THE QUEEN-BEE. 
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much more scantily, and but slowly 
Increase the number of their offspring. 
The egg, after being produced and 
deposited in the cel!, is supplied by 
the workers with farina, and remains 
three days in the same state, at the 
end of which time it bursts and be¬ 
comes a larvae or worm ; in this state 
it continues several days, during which 
time, the cell remains open. It is now 
closed, and the worm transforms into 
a chrysalis or nymph, and lastly into 
the perfect bee. 
The worm of workers passes three 
days in the egg and five in the ver¬ 
micular state; the cell being now 
shut up, the worm begins'to Spin its 
