( 5(5 
xnK mvE anh honkt-bke. 
The process of rearing queens to meet some special 
emergency, is even more wonderful than the one already 
desv^ribod. If the bees have worker-eggs, or worms not 
more than three days old, they make one large cell out 
<;f thi’ee, by nibbling away the partitions of two cells 
adjoining a third. Destroying the eggs or worms in two 
of these cells, they place before the occupant of the other, 
the usual food of the young queens; and by enlarging its 
cell, give it ample space for development. As a security 
against failure, they usually start a number of queen-cells, 
although often the work on all, except a few, is soon dis¬ 
continued. 
In from eleven to fourteen days, they are in possession 
of a new queen, in all respects resembling one reared in 
the natur.al w.ay; while the eggs in the adjoining cells, 
which have been devclojied its workers, are nearly a week 
longci- in coming to maturity. 
The beautiful i-epresentation of comb, in Plate XVIII., is 
t.aken, with important alterations and additions of my 
own, from Cotton’s “ My Bee-Book,” to wbich I am also 
indebted for the gi-oup of bees in the title-page. The 
royal cell (ft), is a perfect queen-cell, from uhich the 
inmate has not yet emerged. The queen-cell (a), repre¬ 
sents the cap or lid as it often appears just .after the young 
q\icen has hatched. The queen-cell (</), which is open at 
the side, is one from which a young queen has been vio¬ 
lently .abstracted ; the other (c), is one which the bees 
have nearly reduced to the acoi n shape. It also resem- 
weiikened hy tho cxtraovtllnary nffliix of llglit, and tho use of microscopes, to con¬ 
tinue any lonper upon such small objects. 
“ III) often wished, the better to accomplish his vast, unlimited views, for a year 
of perpetual heat anti light to perfect his Inquiries; with a polar niglit, to reap all 
the advantages of them by proper drawings and desciipllous.’* 
