6 WORKERS. 



feparate from the workers to the fides of the 

 outward combs. 



They are little" noticed by the workers, 

 and if killed at the doors of the hives do 

 not refent it. Thofe that happen to remain 

 in the flocks till the cold weather arrives, 

 foon perifh by it. 



As their agency in generation, or, indeed, 

 their utility at all, is Hill difputed, it is 

 worth notice, they are endowed with a 

 large quantity of a whitifh liquor in fummer, 

 which the workers are fond of licking when 

 a drone is fqueezed. The many thoufand 

 times I have obferved drones in the combs a 

 I never beheld one with its tail in a cell, 



WORKERS. 



The common bees, or workers, (pi. II, 

 fig. 7.) 'live about a year, but are very li- 

 able to premature death, by hard labour, 

 high winds, birds, arid by many other acci- 

 dents. They are of neither fex, but abfo- 

 lutely neuters. The young bees are diftin- 

 guifhable from the old, by being of a lighter 

 brown. They are not all of one fize, a few 

 feeing fhorter than the others, by being 



hatched 



