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After this I dropped the workers, which had 
become lethargic, into the box: one of them fell 
close to the queen, who lifted her leg as a 
warning to it, but when, a few minutes later, the 
workers recovered animation, mutual friendship was 
established. 
The weather being unfavourable and the workers 
few and undersized, I did not allow the bees their 
liberty, but kept them caged and supplied them 
morning and evening with honey and pollen, and 
they prospered well. 
July 7. The queen laid a number of eggs during 
the night. 
July 10. She laid some more eggs. 
July 14. Possessing another caged nest of /agz- 
darius, | exchanged queens. They took to one 
another's brood and were received amicably by the 
workers, but at first seemed apprehensive that 
something was not quite right. 
July 17. I reinstated each queen in her own 
nest; this exchange was also effected without 
incident. 
July 19. The box containing the nest, which 
was situated on a table in my study, had been acci- 
dentally left open, and a worker that had evidently 
escaped from it was seen to fly in through the open 
window, laden with pollen. She flew to the nest- 
table, which was about three yards from the window, 
and alighting, ran into the nest. It was a prettily 
executed feat, and as the time had now come to let 
the colony have its liberty, the workers having 
