. The illustrated stock doctor and live-stock encyclopedia [microform] : including horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry : with all the facts concerning the various breeds and their and all diseases to which they are prevention of any disease, and restoration of health. Domestic animals; Veterinary medicine; Livestock breeds; Bees; Animaux domestiques; Bétail; Médecine vétérinaire; Abeilles. REGS. 981. EOa AND BKOOI). fe, and e, eggs, t, pupa of queen in queen cell, d, e,f, g, various sizes of larvae. /;, k, k, caps, h, pupa. The worker egg wlien first laid
. The illustrated stock doctor and live-stock encyclopedia [microform] : including horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry : with all the facts concerning the various breeds and their and all diseases to which they are prevention of any disease, and restoration of health. Domestic animals; Veterinary medicine; Livestock breeds; Bees; Animaux domestiques; Bétail; Médecine vétérinaire; Abeilles. REGS. 981. EOa AND BKOOI). fe, and e, eggs, t, pupa of queen in queen cell, d, e,f, g, various sizes of larvae. /;, k, k, caps, h, pupa. The worker egg wlien first laid is a mere speck. In tliree days it liatclies into a small white grub or worm. It is fed by the worker bees and grows rapied over by the worker bees ; then the larva spins a thin silken cocoon, and in three <lays assumes the pnpa state. Then comes a long pcrii .1 of repose. In twenty-one days, the fully- I'orined worker bee emerges from the cell. A queen is more (piickly developed than a common or worker bee. She comes forth, a perfect insect, on the six- teenth day from the laying of the egg. The drone takes longer to mature, and requires twenty-four days for its growth from the egg to the perfect con- dition. DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTIONS OP THE QUEEN. After hatching out, a queen requires impregnation to fit her for her maternal (lutirs. This takes place during flight. Five or j^Ix days after issuing from the cell, or perluqis earlier, if the weather Ih! pleasant, the young queen goes "brth on her bridal tour, ujeets a drone on the wing, and returns to tiie hive impregnate lay worker eggs. It is a curious fact in bee-lifi' that a queen can iay fertile (Iroiie eggs, without impregnation, another wise provision of nature for the preservation of the species. Before laying an egir the queen generally looks into a cell, to see if it be empty. Finding all right, she turns about, inserts Ikt abdomen in the cell, and drops the tiny egg, which by virtue of a Bticky fluid which
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