Note 13 — Chapter I · THE BEE AS AN INSECT.
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The eggs when once deposited adhere to the cells and could not be removed without ruining them; but occasionally when fresh laid they stick to the body of the queen, or even of a worker. Queenless stocks sometimes in their temporary insanity start new queen cells without thinking where the eggs are to come from; but these will remain empty unless some fertile worker' tries her skill.