374 INSECTS THAT LIVE 
of the metropolis, to found a new city, 
she passes from rank to rank, striking 
and exciting each worker she meets, to 
accompany her: the movement is, at 
length, general through the whole hive, 
and the swarm rush into the open air. 
Should any strange animal, or insect, . 
attempt to enter their abode, the alarm 
is in an instant given, and a thousand 
lives are ready to be sacrificed ; but when — 
their queen, as yet a prisoner, emits a 
shrill, piercing cry, a general stupor im- - 
mediately pervades the whole of the 
bees, they all incline their head,.and seem - 
as if paralysed. 
Waspsare alsoacquainted with themode 
of imparting information to their com- 
panions, When a single wasp discovers 
a strong-hold of sugar, honey, or other 
article of food, it returns to its nest, and 
brings off, in a short time, a hundred 
other wasps; but we are yet ignorant, 
if it be by visible, or palpable signs, they 
are mutually informed of this discovery. 
It was in the nature of things, that all 
