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INSFXT MISCELLANIES. 



a pair of the iron bars. Sometimes again the points 

 of the arrow heads at the top of the bars are selected, 

 and in that case it is a pretty sight, particularly in a 

 dewy morning, to see them fringed with the neat and 

 regular lace-work of the spiders, glittering with dew- 

 drops all round the square.* 



MIGRATIONS OF BEES. 



The migrations of the hive-bee are very different, 

 both in principle and procedure, from any of the 

 foregoing instances. The ants in many cases can 

 extend their premises indefinitely, and therefore can 

 have little inducement to emigrate, unless they exhaust 

 all the provision obtainable in their neighbourhood. 

 With hive-bees the case is difTerent; for being con- 

 fined within a limited space, they cannot there increase 

 and multiply beyond a certain point, and conse- 



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