Queen Bee
in entomology, a fully developed female bee in a hive or nest.
She lays 2,000 or 3,000 eggs daily during the height of summer, or more than 1,000,000 during her lifetime, which is about five years. See BEE.
QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, a group to the N. of Vancouver Island, off the coast of British Columbia; area, 5,100 square miles. The two principal islands, Graham and Moresby, have a length of 160 and a greatest breadth of nearly 70 miles. The climate is healthy, but very rainy. Anthracite coal, copper and iron ore, and gold bearing quartz have been found, and forests abound.
The inhabitants are about 2,000 Indians, who engage in fishing.
QUEEN'S YORK.
BOROUGH. See NEW