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kaeacling it down; for when brought in, it is 
rather a powder than a paste. That it is the food 
of the maggot is proved by examining the animal’s 
stomach; for when we kill a maggot full grown, 
we find its stomach full of a similar substance^ 
only softer, as if mixed with a fluid, but we never 
find honey in the stomach; therefore we are to 
suppose it is collected as food for the maggot, as 
much as honey is for the old bee. The food of 
the male and the queen maggot has been supposed 
to be different from that of the labourers. Reau- 
mur says, the food of the queen maggot is differ- 
ent in taste from that of the common ones. How 
he knew this, who vWas unacquainted with the 
food of the others, I cannot conceive. 
Of the Excrement of the Maggot. 
“ They have very little excrement, but what 
^hey do discharge is deposited at the bottom of 
the cell; and what at first will appear rather ex- 
traordinary, it is never cleared away by the bees, 
]>ut allowed to dry along with the maggot coats ; 
and both fresh eggs and honey are deposited in 
these cells, so circumstanced, every future year; 
so that in time the cells become nearly half full. 
“ Of the Chrysalis State. 
“ In this state they are forming themselves for 
a new life : they are either entirely new built, or 
