The Young Queens 
has become too weak to persist in her 
passion, they will themselves complete the 
massacre of the innocents; and the sover- 
eign race, and their dwellings, will all 
disappear. 
This is the terrible hour of the hive; 
the only occasion, with’ that of the more 
justifiable execution of the drones, when 
the workers suffer discord and death to be 
busy amongst them; and here, as often in 
nature, it is the favoured of love who 
attract to themselves the most extraor- 
dinary shafts of violent death. 
It will happen at times that two queens 
will be hatched simultaneously, the occur- 
rence being rare, however, for the bees 
take special care to prevent it. But when- 
ever this does take place, the deadly com- 
bat will begin the moment they emerge 
from their cradles; and of this combat 
Huber was the first to remark an extraor- 
dinary feature. Each time, it would seem 
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