th brood as soon as the workers have builtit. Soonafter our queen was hatched in the parent swarm, she took her first and only flight, with the exception of that in swarming time. A single fertiliza- tion is sufficient to impregnate the hundreds of thousands of eggs laid by the queen during her… … benefit of the young. The food is not only administered to their way out of the cells as best they can, while the queen Fig. 8—PART OF COMB. the baby bees, but they appear to be always immersed in a receives every care and assistance. In this the common bees sort of bath of the jelly-like…
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