The school and farmA treatise on the elements of agriculture . y one bee, the largest ofthem, called the cjueen bee. Only one queen bee canremain in a hive; if there should be two, one mustleave. When it does leave a part of the swarm goeswith it. The queen bee lays one egg in a cell. This may pro-duce either a so-called worker bee, always a female, ora male bee, called drone; and in some cases a queenbee. A swarm may contain some 20,000 or moreworkers, and from 500 to 1,000 drones. While at 214 SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE. work laying eggs the queen bee averages some 2,000 aday. The drones are ha
The school and farmA treatise on the elements of agriculture . y one bee, the largest ofthem, called the cjueen bee. Only one queen bee canremain in a hive; if there should be two, one mustleave. When it does leave a part of the swarm goeswith it. The queen bee lays one egg in a cell. This may pro-duce either a so-called worker bee, always a female, ora male bee, called drone; and in some cases a queenbee. A swarm may contain some 20,000 or moreworkers, and from 500 to 1,000 drones. While at 214 SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE. work laying eggs the queen bee averages some 2,000 aday. The drones are hatched in cells somewhat largerthan those which answer for the worker, and the cellsfor the queen bees (there are frequently more thanone,) are still larger. A similar difference is in thefood. After the egg is laid the bees place a mixture ofhoney and pollen into the cell, for the use of the larvawhich hatches in about three days, and then feeds onthe food by its side for some six days. It is then readyto go into that stage which is the same for all insects,.
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