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She also seems to have the power to lay, at will, unfecundated eggs, from which drones are produced.
Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897
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An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Orison Swett Marden 1887
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An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into non-entity.
Pushing to the Front Orison Swett Marden 1887
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She also seems to have the power to lay, at will, unfecundated eggs, from which drones are produced.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877
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Although it is the rule that the males should be idle, it is also the rule for these idlers to keep near the galleries in course of construction, coming and going from door to door and hovering above the work-yards to seize the moment at which the unfecundated females will at last yield to their importunities.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
Pearls of Thought Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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It appears to me that these facts constitute all the links in a perfect chain, and demonstrate beyond the possibility of doubt, that unfecundated queens are not only capable of laying eggs, (this would be no more remarkable than the same occurrence in a hen,) but that these eggs are possessed of sufficient vitality to produce drones.
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852
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On the contrary, when she is egg-laying in drone cells, this compression cannot take place, the mouth of the spermatheca is kept closed, and the eggs are, necessarily, unfecundated.
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852
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He states that he found drone-laying Queens in several of his hives, whose wings were so imperfect that they could not fly, and that on examination, they proved to be unfecundated.
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852
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