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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 oflf 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. 



