48 AN EASY METHOD 



CHAPTER VIII. 



ON SUPPLYING SWARMS DESTITUTE OF A QUEEN WITH ANOTHER. 



V 



Take the drawer from the hive, which was placed thwaj 

 according to Chapter VII., and insert the same into the cham- 

 ber of the hive to be supplied, observing Chapter VI. in the use 

 of the slides ; or remove a box containing brood-comb as 

 above described, and the bees will make one for themselves ; 

 or take a queen from any small swarm, and introduce her at 

 the mouth of the hive. 



REMARKS. 



Colonies destitute of a queen may be supplied with an- 

 other the moment it is found they have none ; whrai is known 

 only by their actions. 



Bees, when deprived of their female sovereign, cease their 

 labors ; no pollen or bee- bread is seen on their legs"'; no am- 

 bition seems to actuate their movements ; no dead bees are 

 drawn out ; no deformed bees, in the various stages of their 

 minority, are extracted, and dragged out of their cells, and 

 dropped down about the hive, as is usual among all healthy 

 and prosperous colonies. 



Swarms that have lost their queen,*when standing on the 

 bench by the side of others, will run or fly into the adjoining 

 hive without the least resistance. They will commence their 

 emigration by running, in confused platoons of hundreds, 



