Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 150
many other ways queens are differ-ent from common bees. Her majesty is requiredto do no work; she is cared for and fed andcuddled up warm by other bees. All she has to do may hold her and tease her, even tear her limbfrom limb, if you have the heart to be so cruel,and she will never sting you; but… … is to lay eggs, and that, Imust do her justice to say,she does well. She layssometimes 3000 eggs a day,for days together. There isone very curious thing I for-got to tell you about the queens ;will never sting anything but another BEE-RANCHIN LOWERCALIFORNIA. a queen-beequeen. You watch, It has…
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