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407. Bees sometimes abandon their hives very early in 
Spring, or even late in Summer or Fall (264). Although 
exhibiting the appearance of natural swarming, they leave, 
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not because the population is so crowded that they wish to 
form new colonies, but because it is either so small, or the 
hive so destitute of supplies, that they are driven to desper- 
