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and the striped (which is also the better one) — that 

 if there is another king with him he quarrels with 

 him and spoils the hive, as he either drives the other 

 away or is himself driven away, taking with him a 

 large number of bees. And so if there are two kings 

 in the same hive it is better for the bee-keeper to 

 19 kill the black one. Of bees which are not kings the 

 best are the small, round, striped kind. The thief, 

 called' by others the drone,* is black and broad- 

 bellied. The bee which resembles the wasp ' does 

 not join in the work, and has a habit of stinging, 

 and the bees separate it from their company. Bees 

 differ in being wild and tame — and here I mean by 

 ** wild " bees those that feed in woodland places, by 

 ** tame" ones those that do so on cultivated land. 

 The wild* ones are smaller in size and covered with 

 hairs, but are the better workers. 



' Vocabitur. Keil suggests vocatur, which I have translated. 



' Fucus. Aristotle distinguishes between the ' ' drone " and 

 the "thief" {loc. cit.): 'inpot; 6 (pwp KaXovfifvo^, fxkXar Kai xXaTV- 

 ■yaoTup. iTi c 6 K7i<ffqv. ovtoq fikyiffTog ttuvtujv aKivrpoq Si Kai vioOpog. 

 *• The second kind, the so-called * thief is black and broad- 

 bellied. And again there is the drone ; this is the biggest of 

 all, but stingless and stupid." Did Varro mistranslate trt 6 6 

 Ki7f7v ovToi, "and again this drone," etc., and so identify It 

 with the "thief"? 



' Vespa. I have adopted Schneider's emendation, vespae^ 

 which accords well with Aristotle's aXX;; /zaicpu o/xoia t^ avOrjvr), 

 and Pliny's (xi, 18) deteriores longae et quibus similitudo ves- 

 parum. 



* Silvestres. Cf. Aristotle {loc. cit. ) : tlci yip at iwb ruiv v\ov6fi<ov 

 iatn'/Tipcu Kai iXdrrovQ Kai ipyarucbtripai Kai xaXtiruirtpai. Further on 

 in the same chapter he says : " the little ones are better workers 



