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cared to pursue her! She was almost past work, 
and taking pity on her I provided her with a 
worker that emerged yesterday in one of my more 
advanced /apzdarius nests. About noon I saw her 
enter her nest, but only a minute later she came out 
again, and I saw that her honey-pot was already 
full. Certainly feeding had not made this queen lazy. 
This, however, was the last day on which I saw 
her fly. 
July 4. In the evening I poured some more 
paraffin oil into the trench, the smell of the previous 
application having almost disappeared. No ants 
had got into the nest. 
July 5. The honey-pot having proved leaky, 
I substituted an artificial one made of beeswax. 
The first worker emerged to-day. 
I continued feeding the colony each evening 
until the weather improved towards the end of 
July, but it did not grow very rapidly, and the 
workers got lazy. In August, however, it picked 
up well and became quite strong. About the 
middle of September the weather grew cool and 
the colony lapsed occasionally into torpor. As 
time went on the periods of torpor became more 
frequent and lasted longer. During these periods 
the bees were able to support life for days together 
without food. And so the colony lingered on until 
October 16, the queen remaining alive with four 
workers until the end. 
