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swarming impulse, leave the hive, never to return, and, accom- 

 panied by the old queen, depart in a mass to seek another home. 

 This is called "" swarming." It is a very peculiar phenomenon 

 in the history of the hive, and is the natural and instinctive method 

 of proj)agating the species. 



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Fig. 565. — Beood Fbames, Showing Q^;E1EN Cells 



At the proper time, which is a few days before the young 

 queen is ready to emerge from its cell, a great commotion takes 

 place in the hive, and the queen and a large part of the bees rush 

 out in a genuine stampede, as if they were escaping from a danger. 

 Simply for the sake of posterity, they are willing to leave all 

 their accumulated stores of riches that they have worked so hard 



