OF THE EGGS, 
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the sixteenth clay it becomes a perfect 
queen. 
The male worm passes three days 
in the egg, six and a half as a worm, 
and metamorphoses into a winged a- 
nimal on the twenty-fourth after the 
egg is laid. 
Young bees cannot fly till a day or 
two after leaving the cell; they are 
then of a greyish colour and their 
limbs are weak. 
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ON THE FORMATION OF SWARMS. 
IN spring* a fertile queen of a well- 
