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What would it do ? 
It was in a strange locality, did it hover about and examine 
the surroundings as a sober-minded bee would do ? 
Nothing of the sort. Away asif it were flying for its life. Over 
the house-tops. 
Would it return to the old, and well-known stand even ? 
Never ! 
(Here let me remark that if hives were “roused,” either by 
“sunlight,” or “blows,” &c., numbers of bees would want to get 
out, and if they did so would infallibly return to the old stand.) 
NotE—“ All the hives left out of doors, but one, were kept closed; 
and that one was closed too, by me, on these occasions.” 
C.D. I will now take the four hives left on their own stands, 
and which were provided with zine doors, kept generally closed. 
These four all shared similarly, with the exception that I could, 
in the case of two, observe the bees “in situ” (as I stated) in 
consequence of having the boxes beneath. 
I used to notice, in all these four cases, bees (one or two, now 
and again) striving to get out at the doorways. Of course on a 
fine sunny day there was a general movement to the doorways, 
on which occasions, unless there was snow on the ground, I used 
to throw them open, closing them again before night. At first, 
and before I was struck with what I have so far described, I took 
no notice of these bees. 
I now began to observe them, and saw in the case of the hives 
raised on boxes, that the bees behaved exactly similarly to those 
exposed to the light on the boxes in the house. 
In the case of the others, those bees after working and 
struggling died in the doorways. 
I noted another matter, too, and that was that these bees were 
invariably old worn-out bees, also I remarked that they always 
had themselves well supplied with honey in their bags. 
I then ceased my experiments “inside,” and let no more bees out 
from the house, but began to experiment on these four hives. 
First, then, I stopped up the doorway of the last hive I have 
to refer to (namely, the one covered on its stand, but not warmly 
wrapped up) with a piece of perforated zine. 
