PHYSIOLOGY. 



of all but one. It was the opinion of SCHIRACH 

 and RIEM, that if a stranger queen were introduced 

 where there was a native one, the former would 

 be assailed by the workers, and by them stung to 

 death. The experiments of HUBER and DUNBAR 

 discountenance this opinion : indeed Huber says 

 that in the whole course of his experience he 

 never knew more than one instance of a queen's 

 being stung by a worker, and that was wholly 

 unintentional. 



But though the experiments to which I have 

 just alluded, produced different results from what 

 we were led to expect by Schirach and Riem, yet 

 those of HUBER did not correspond with those of 

 DUNBAR. The former introduced two stranger 

 queens into hives containing native queens ; of the 

 latter, one was fertile the other a virgin, the for- 

 mer were both fertile. Each of these introduc- 

 tions led to a single-combat between the queens, 

 and each terminated in the death of the stranger. 

 The latter gentleman also on two occasions in- 

 troduced stranger queens to the queens regnant, 

 in his mirror hive ; but in neither case were they 

 stung to death, either by the queen or workers, 

 but merely surrounded and confined by the latter, 

 and by that confinement either suffocated or 

 starved to death. SCHIRACH and RIEM had pro- 

 bably witnessed similar conduct on the part of the 



