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THE INSECT WORLD. 



are dropped on the linen when the hive is turned. This is the 

 manner in which you act when it is determined to lodge the swarm ; 

 but when the swarm is to be lodged in another hive, as we shall see 

 farther on, immediately that the bees recognise the lodging which is 



Fig. 324. Taking a swarm. 



destined for them, they set to work to beat to arms, and to enter in a 

 compact column their new dwelling ; those which are fluttering about 

 in the air are summoned by this call, and are not long in alighting on 

 the spot where the rest of their companions are fixed. At the end of 

 a quarter or half an hour, at the most, all, or nearly all, have entered 



