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Fi g u r e 7.7.
Ovaries from worker honey bees that were kept in a queenless colony
for 5 (upper panel) and 18 (lower panel) days. Note that both ovaries of each pair
appear healthy and are in the same stage of reproductive development. At 18
days, ovaries were activated and contained eggs in the transplanted and resident
ovaries. Photo by Ying Wang.
ovaries in queenless, broodless hives and waiting for their ovaries to
develop, as occurs normally. h e resident ovaries become vitellogenic
and contained developing eggs, but so did the transplanted ovaries, even
though they were not connected to anything and were just l oating in
the hemolymph. h ey were indistinguishable from the resident ova-
