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workers emerge, provided of course that she is 
supplied with food. The queen’s intelligence is 
seen at its best while she is thus caring for her 
brood, and her devotion to it, and her alertness on 
the slightest approach of danger, are most interesting 
to witness. She shows no desire to escape unless 
she is severely molested, and is quite content with 
her brood, anxiously incubating it day and night. 
It is important not to allow the queen her liberty, 
for if she is permitted to take wing she will return 
to the original location of her nest and, after vainly 
searching about for it there, she will fly away and 
be no more seen. As a precaution against loss, 
her wings may be clipped. 
In May 1909 a JZucorum queen was found to 
have occupied a mouse-nest under a large box 
that had been placed, bottom upwards, on the 
grass in my apiary the previous year. As the nest 
contained cocoons, I brought the queen with her 
brood indoors and fed her daily. She was devoted 
to her brood and never left it except to drink the 
honey I provided, or to perform other necessary 
duties, and she showed great agitation if, when 
returning to the brood, she did not find her way 
to it at once. When the workers emerged I clipped 
the queen’s wings, and put the box containing the 
nest out of doors, under an inverted flower-pot, 
feeding the bees a little during the first few even- 
ings. In a few days the little colony was able to 
support itself and it soon grew fairly prosperous. 
In due course it produced males and queens, but 
