. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. Besides thisthere should be four, five, oreven more combs fairly stockedwith developing brood, with agood supply of honey about may also be present,even several hundred in num-ber, although it is better tolimit their production to se-lected hives, which in the mainit is not difficult to accomplish. Under normal conditions thequeen lays all of the eggs whichare deposited in the hive, beingcapable of depositing under fa-vorable conditions as many as4,000 in twenty-four hours. Or-dinarily she mates but once,Hying from the hive to m
. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. Besides thisthere should be four, five, oreven more combs fairly stockedwith developing brood, with agood supply of honey about may also be present,even several hundred in num-ber, although it is better tolimit their production to se-lected hives, which in the mainit is not difficult to accomplish. Under normal conditions thequeen lays all of the eggs whichare deposited in the hive, beingcapable of depositing under fa-vorable conditions as many as4,000 in twenty-four hours. Or-dinarily she mates but once,Hying from the hive to meetthe drone—the male bee—highin the air, when five to ninedays old generally, althoughthis time varies under differentclimatic conditions as well aswith different races. Seminalfluid sufficient to impregnatethe greater number of eggs shewill deposit during the next two or three years (sometimes even fouror five years) is stored at the time of mating in a sac—the spermatheca,opening into the oviduct or egg-passage (fig. 5, s). The queen seems 19. Fig. 5.—Ovaries of queen and workers: A, abdomenof queen—under side (magnified eight times); P, peti-ole; 0,0, ovaries; hs, position tilled by honey saO; ds,position through which digestive system passes: (>: , common oviduct; E. egg-passing ovi-duct; «, spermatheca; i. Intestine; po,poison bag;, poison gland; St, Bting; p. palpi. B, rudimentaryovaries of ordinary worker; «p, rudimentary sperma-theca. (. partially developed ovaries of fertileworker; sp, rudimentary .•spermatheca. (From Ches-hire.) 20 MANUAL OF APICULTURE. to be able to control this opening so as to fertilize eggs or not as shewills at the time of depositing them. If fertilized they develop intoworkers or queens according to the character of the food given, thesize and shape of the cell, etc.; if unfertilized, into drones. The queenslife may extend over a period of four or five years, but three years isquite as long as any queen ought t
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