200 THE HONEY-BEE. 



temper is displayed, that the supplied queen is 

 refused ,' and she is either stung, or, more frequently, 

 is so thickly clustered around and upon as to be 

 suffocated. Occasionally, indeed, such a resolute 

 determination is shown to have no monarch but one 

 of their own raising, that the only course is to supply 

 brood-comb with eggs to such a community, or to 

 unite them with another stock which has a queen. 

 We can no more account for these vagaries of so- 

 called instinct, than we can for those displayed 

 among human beings endowed with what we consider 

 the higher faculty of reason. 



