Page 21 - The Miracle of the Honeybee

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The Pupal Stage
After the worker bees cap the larva’s chamber, it enters the pupal stage
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and remains in its cell for 12 days. During that time, no external change
can be observed in the cell. Yet within it, the pupa is constantly develop-
ing. Three weeks after the queen bee laid the egg in the cell, its wax cover
is torn open, and a honeybee emerges, ready to fly. The pupa’s outer shell
remains in the cell as a dead, cast-off sheath.
The honeybee that emerges from the cell begins its life span of six
weeks or so as a result of these developmental stages it has undergone. 8
The bee emerges from the cell as an entirely new creature, resembling nei-
ther the larva nor the pupa. With the completion of its final stage of devel-
opment, the bee emerges from the pupa with all the perfect systems it will
need in order to survive—a phenomenon that deserves consideration.
Every structure and attribute the bee possesses has formed inside a small,
entirely closed area. Its specially structured wings it will use to travel long
distances, the compound eyes created for all the functions they will per-
form, the sting it will use against enemies, its glands, the system which en-
ables the production of wax, its reproductive system, the leg hairs that
allow it to gather pollen—in other words, all its physical systems develop

During the pupal stage, all of a bee’s
adult physical characteristics form in
a confined area. When a bee
emerges, its wings, eyes and all of its
physical systems are ready for life in
the outside world.

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