698 
QUEENS 
Find the queen. 
from being introduced. The remedy is to 
hunt her out and remove her. When queens 
are so nearly like a worker bee as to make 
it hard to distinguish them, they can often 
be detected by the peculiar behavior of the 
bees toward them. See woodcut on page 697. 
In the fall, after the queen has ceased lay¬ 
ing, she will usually look small and insigni¬ 
ficant even tho she be an extra good one. 
But if it is during the laying season, when 
all fertile queens are laying, and the queen 
looks small, she should be removed. Usu¬ 
ally after the main or heavy honey flow' is 
over, all queens let up on or stop laying 
for a short time. At such times any 
queen will look small. 
DEVELOPMENT OF BABY QUEENS. 
HOW A WORKER EGG IS MADE TO PRODUCE A 
QUEEN. 
This is a question that puzzles novices 
about as much as any question they can 
ask. To answer it let the following experi¬ 
ment be tried when the bees tell their own 
story: Get a frame of eggs, and put it into 
a colony having no queen. The tiny eggs 
will hatch into larvas; but about as soon 
as they begin to hatch, there will be found 
a few of the cells supplied with a greater 
profusion of milky food than others. Later 
these cells will begin to be enlarged, and 
soon at the expense of the adjoining ones. 
These are queen-cells, and they are some¬ 
thing like the cup of an acorn in shape, 
and usually occupy about the space of 
three ordinary cells. In the cuts will be 
seen cells in full stages of growth. See 
Queen-rearing. 
There are some queer things about queen- 
cells, as will be noticed. After the cell is 
sealed, the bees put a great excess of wax 
on it, make a long tapering point, and 
