The New Queen. 151 
Only queens sting queens. 
If there should happen to be a good 
many bees still in the hive after a swarm 
leaves, the workers will not allow the 
queens to fight, but surround them and 
keep them apart until the older queen can 
be sent off with another swarm. 
If the hive is very much crowded, the 
bees may swarm out of it several times in 
one season. 
When all is serene within the hive, if the 
day is fair, the young queen takes an airing. 
She does not have an escort, but goes 
alone to view the beautiful world outside 
the hive. 
Huber was the first to discover that she 
flies up into the blue sky, where she meets 
a drone, who is her mate. He fills her 
pocket, which she carries on purpose, with 
pollen, not flower-pollen, but bee-pollen. 
This pollen lasts as long as she lives, and 
she uses it to fertilize the queen and worker 
eggs. 
