The Young Queens 
After the second swarm the bees, as a 
rule, will renounce further division, owing 
either to their having observed the exces- 
sive feebleness of their own stock, or to 
the prudence urged upon them by threaten- 
ing skies. In that case they will allow 
the third queen to slaughter the captives ; 
ordinary life will at once be resumed, and 
pursued with the more ardour for the 
reason that the workers are all very young, 
that the hive is depopulated and impover- 
ished, and that there are great voids to 
fill before the arrival of winter. 
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The departure of the second and third 
swarms resembles that of the first, and the 
conditions are identical, with the exception 
that the bees are fewer in number, less 
circumspect, and lacking in scouts; and 
also that the young and virgin queen, 
being unencumbered and ardent, will fly 
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