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DISEASES 



Sect. XIV. q. - 



ey than is necelTary for their own confumptlon, as cacalia f; 



Ipine colts-foot, and poly 

 11 thefe contrivances the fl 



fagopyrum, biick-wh 



From 



jury from 



depredations of bee 



f plants probably receive lefs 



hs, and butterflies, in th 



try, and from the humming bird in tropical climates, than they 



other wife would be fubjed 

 But befides the lofs of much 



muft like wife inj 



f their honey an abundance of bees 



femirial produds of vegetables by phjiid 



g the ftamina of flowers of their anther-duft lor bee-bread as Mr 



Hunter believes; and alfb of the wax. which 



their defence asrainfl: 



£> 



Neverthelels, as mankind 



he authers fo 



own purpofes the honey thus colleded by bees, and th 



:>s; and as the feeds ufpja 



om 



fu {fl 



bund 



the 



epred 



of 



which they fabricate th 

 fruits are neverth 



bees are not counteraded hke thofe of other inkas, b 

 trary encouraged. 



The following obfervations, which I made this fummer, mav be of 

 fervice to thofe who keep bees, and which I (hall therefore here ^r!.^. 



The bees of one fociety frequentlv attack thofe of 



fociety 



plunde^ them of their honey, and deilroy moft of them, perhaps 

 of them, in battle; in this- refpeft refembling the focieties of 

 kind ! Th'is war for plunder occurs more freq 

 monly fufpe£led. 



IS com 



Laft year I had one hive of bees totally dertroved 



and the year before another, which I did not take means top 

 though 1 faw the contefl:, and the nurtiber deftroyed in the 

 but not early enough in the commencement of hodilities. 



th 



Taft week, J 



o 



were about 



fw 



I 6, I happened to fee a great number of bees 

 mouth of my only hive, and fuppofed that tl 



I 



an hour or two, on again attend 



ey 



battl 



and 



o 



them I difrinclly faw it was 



about a hundred dead bees on the ground, and on the bench bef* 



blerved 



the h 



I then direded 



boaird about an inch thick to be laid 



th 





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