200 THE HONEY-BEE. 



temper is displayed, that the supplied queen is 

 refused ; and she is either stung, or, more frequently, 

 is so thickly .clustered around and upon as to be 

 suffocated. Occasionally, indeed, such a resolute 

 determination is shown to have no monarch but one 

 of their own raising, that the only course is to supply 

 brood-comb with eggs to such a community, or to 

 unite them with another stock which has a queen. 

 We can no more account for these vagaries of so- 

 called instinct, than we can for those displayed 

 among human beings endowed with what we consider 

 the higher faculty of reason. 



