You begin to see in all your studying, that almost all living things seem to live with the purpose of helping baby things like themselves to live.
So good Mrs. Bee is not gathering honey and pollen bee-flour to “gobble” them up, but is going to pack much of them away for the use of the bees who will live over winter, and for the baby bees, and for the male bees who have no way of gathering food from the flowers for themselves.
The Bee City
A Beehive city is a wonderfully busy place.
From twenty thousand to forty thousand, or more, inhabitants live in the Bee City, so no wonder it is a busy place. You would think that everything would be in confusion, but on the contrary everything is in marvelous law and order. Every inhabitant knows just what part it is expected to do, and each kind of inhabitant is particularly fitted to do its own particular part.
| In every Beehive City there are— | A Queen Bee, Many Worker Bees, Quite a number of Drone Bees. |
The Queen Bee
The Queen Bee is the mother bee, and it is her duty to lay eggs, out of which Baby Bees are hatched.