. Eddy on bee-culture, and the protective bee-hive; a guide to a successful and profitable method of bee-culture; the results of many years' experience and observation in bee-keeping. bor, is a point which is not satisfactorilysettled by any observations or experiments which have hitherto beenmade. Their number varies in different swarms, from twelve to fortythousand, according to circumstances, the size of the hive or thedegree of prosperity which they enjoy. They are styled neuters, but SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. 19 are really females of a dwarfish size. They are imperfectly developedin size, and
. Eddy on bee-culture, and the protective bee-hive; a guide to a successful and profitable method of bee-culture; the results of many years' experience and observation in bee-keeping. bor, is a point which is not satisfactorilysettled by any observations or experiments which have hitherto beenmade. Their number varies in different swarms, from twelve to fortythousand, according to circumstances, the size of the hive or thedegree of prosperity which they enjoy. They are styled neuters, but SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. 19 are really females of a dwarfish size. They are imperfectly developedin size, and their female organs and propensities are in like mannerimperfectly developed, except in some few instances. In consequenceof a more perfect development than is usual, they have been known tolay drone eggs. That they are really females and not mongrels isproved by the fact that when a queen is lost or removed from the hivein the hatching season, a newly laid worker egg is taken from the cellin which it has been deposited and transferred into a queen cell, whichis prepared for the purpose, and by a peculiar feed called royal jelly itbecomes a perfectly developed qaeen or THE DRONE. The drone, like the queen and worker, is appropriately named. Heis larger, stouter and more bulky than the worker, and not so long asthe queen. The drones are the only males in the hive. They arehatched from April to July, and usually number from three to fourhundred in a single colony. They are literally gentlemen of add nothing to the stores of the family, perform no labor, and donot even gather their own food, but live on the labors of others. Theyseem designed merely for propagation. Their days are very the work of impregnating the queen is performed for thefollowing season, they are destroyed by the workers, who seem intenton carrying out the principle that he that will not work shall not general slaughter of drones usually takes place during the monthof
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