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filled ii?ith comb, it began to slacken. Probably 
that end of the egg which is first protruded, is that 
which sticks to the bottom of the cell: and pro- 
bably the tail of the maggot is formed at that 
end : when they move the egg, how they make it 
stick again, I do not know. I have just observed, 
that they often move the egg out of a cell, to some 
other, we may suppose; why they do this, I can- 
not say ; whether it is because we have been ex- 
posing this part, is not easily determined. In 
those new formed combs, as also in many not half 
finished, we find the substance called bee-bread, 
and some of it is covered over with wax; which 
will be considered further. By the time they have 
worked above half way down the hive, with the 
comb, they are beginning to form the larger cells, 
and by this time the first broods are liatched, 
which were small, or labourers; and now they 
begin to breed males, and probably a queen, for 
a new swarm ; because the males are now bred to 
impregnate the young queen for the present sum- 
mer, as also for the next year. This progress in 
breeding is the same with that of the wasp, hornet, 
and humble bee*. Although this account is com- 
monly allowed, yet writers on this subject have 
supposed another mode of producing a queen, 
* Reaumur on Bees, says, that the drone eggs, when laid in 
small cells, produce drones : and Wilhelmi says, that it is the 
labourers only that lay drones eggs. Mr. Riem says, that queens 
are never reared in any but royal cells, although males sometimes 
in common cells j and workers in old queen ceils, but never in 
those recently made.” 
