FORTY YEARS AMONG THE EEES. 



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those that contain brood, for in tryingf to get away from 

 the light she will go onto the outside combs. 



Fig. 19, — Sive-Seat with Sand-Moles. 



This trying to get away from the light on the part of 

 the queen, by going from one comb to the other, makes 

 me go over the combs as rapidly as possible without look- 

 ing too closely, for if I do not see her with a slight look- 

 ing, the chances are that she is on another comb, and I 

 count it better to run the chance of going over the combs 

 again, rather than to go too slowly. For if one goes over 

 the combs slowly enough, it is a pretty safe thing to say 

 that the queen will be driven clear to the other side of 

 the hive. 



My assistant, however, who is an exoert at finding 

 queens, holds a different theory, and as a consequence 



