232 SUMMER. 



frequently two, three, and four ; even six at one time 

 come out. If these had to bite their way out, after 

 the workers had decided it was time to start (for it 

 must he they decide it when the queens are shut up), 

 they would hardly be in season. 



APTEE SWAKMS DIFFERENT IN APPEABANCB TROM THE FIRST 

 WHEN ABOUT TO ISSUE. 



Another thing, when after swarms start, the ap- 

 pearance about the entrance is altogether different 

 from first ones, unless there is an unusual number iof 

 bees. I have said that for a little time beforehand', 

 that such were in an apparent tumult, &c. But after 

 swarms seldom give any such notice. One or more 

 of the young queens may sometimes be seen to run 

 out, and back, several times in a few'minutes, in a 

 perfect frenzy; sometimes fly a short distance, and 

 return before the swarm will get started (which 

 she could not do if confined). The workers seem 

 more reluctant about leaving than in first swarms', 

 when a mother instead of a sister is leader. Even 

 after the swarm is in motion, she may return and 

 enter the hive a moment. No doubt she finds it 

 necessary to animate or induce as many as possible to 

 leave with her. A person watching the issue of' a 

 second swarm under these circumstances, for the first 

 time, and finding the queen lea-ving first, would very 

 likely gii£ss all must be alike. Perhaps the next one 

 would be different ; the first thing seen might be the 

 Bwarm leaving, and no queen discovered at all. But 

 to return to the imprisonment of the queens. I have 



