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When Queens Are RearedCategory: BREEDING. Also, when the combs become crowded with bees, and honey plenty, the preparations for young queens commence: as the first step towards swarming, from one to twenty royal cells are begun; when about half completed, the queen (if all continues favorable) will deposit eggs in them, these will be glued fast by one end like those for the workers; there is no doubt but they are precisely the same kind of eggs that produce other bees. When hatched, the little worm will be supplied with a superabundance of food; at least, it appears so from the fact, that a few times I have found a quantity remaining in the cell after the queen had left. The consistence of this food is about like cream, the color some lighter, or just tinged with yellow. If it was thin like water, or even honey, I cannot imagine how it could be made to stay in the upper end of an inverted cell of that size in such quantities as are put in, as the bees often fill it near half full. Sometimes a cell of this kind will contain this food, and no worm to feed upon it. I _guessed_ the bees had compounded more than their present necessities required, and that they stored it there to have it ready, also, that being there all might know it was for royalty. The taste is said to be "more pungent" than food given to the worker, and the difference in food changes the bee from a worker to a queen. I have nothing to say against this hypothesis; it may be so, or the young bee being obliged to stand on its head may effect it, or both causes combined may effect the change. I never tasted this food, or found any test to apply. The preceding plate represents a piece of comb containing all the different cells--those at the left hand the size for drones. In the centre are few that appear sealed over, others nearly covered, others the larva in different stages of growth, as well as the eggs. _Fig. 1_ represents a queen's cell just commenced. They are usually started thus far the first season, very frequently when the hive is only half or two-thirds full. _Fig. 2_ is a cell sufficiently advanced to receive the egg. _Fig. 3_ one finished, the stage when the first swarm leaves. _Fig. 4_ when a queen has been perfected and left. _Fig. 5_ is a cell where its occupant has been destroyed by a rival, and removed by the workers. It will be perceived that each finished queen's cell contains as much wax as fifty made for the workers. Next: Liability Of Being Destroyed Previous: When Drones Are Reared
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