When the queen-to-be hatches, worker bees will feed her a strict diet of rich royal jelly. After another five and a half days the larva changes into a pupa, and seven days later the new queen's cell is sealed shut to hide her from my prying eyes.
In 1836, 70 years after the Declaration of Independence, a group of Adams County men met near a grist mill by Rock Creek in Cumberland Township to celebrate the 4th