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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 oni 

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

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



