. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. 74 AUSTRALASIAN The transformations of the queen larva are completed in seven days from the closing of the cell, so that on the sixteenth day from the laying of the egg (six days shorter than the period for the worker, and nine days shorter than that for the drone) the fully developed queen emerges from the cell. The only other matter to be noticed in this place is th
. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. 74 AUSTRALASIAN The transformations of the queen larva are completed in seven days from the closing of the cell, so that on the sixteenth day from the laying of the egg (six days shorter than the period for the worker, and nine days shorter than that for the drone) the fully developed queen emerges from the cell. The only other matter to be noticed in this place is the exceptional development of a queen bee from an egg or young larva originally laid in a worker cell. This takes place in abnormal cases only where the hive has suddenly become queen- less. As soon as their loss is discovered by the workers, they proceed to build queen cells over worker eggs, or over larvae not more than three days old. They select a cell for the purpose, with the egg or very young larva in it; they break down the parti- tions of the adjoining cells, and so make room for the base of a queen cell, which they proceed to build in the usual manner, and to feed the larva with the usual royal jelly, and in due course of time a developed queen is produced. The subjoined figure shows the appearance of such queen cells built over ordi- nary cells. The ordinary worker cells, with eggs in them, are. QUEEN CELLS BTJILT OVER WORKER CELLS. shown at A; B is a queen cell partly built; and C one completed and closed, d shows a case, which sometimes occurs, of a queen cell built over drone brood. Such cells—which maybe known by the absence of indentations on their outer surfaces—are of course useless, as the nature of the drone egg is not altered by the form of the cell or the quality of the food given to the larva. This phenomenon of queens being reared from worker larvEe caused much astonishment when it was first observed by Schirach. Please note that these images are extr
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