METAMORPHOSIS 
cocoon*, which occupies it thirty-six 
hours. In three days it changes into 
a nymph, and passes six in this form, 
and on the twentieth day of its ex¬ 
istence it attains the winged state. 
The royal worm also passes three 
days in the egg, and is five a worm; 
the bees then close its ceil, and it 
immediately begins spinning its co¬ 
coon which occupies it twenty-four 
hours. The ICth, 11th, and part of 
the 12th day, it remains in complete 
repose. It then transforms into a 
nymph, in which state it continues 
a little mire than four da^s; and on 
* A kind of silken web in which the worm 
shrouds itself. 
