86 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
‘But if the Door means, that this is food for’ the 
young Bees after they are bred, and abroad in the hive; 
(elf he fays nothing to the purpofe) I deny it’s well 
knowing, that both Queens, Commons and Drones, live 
only upon honey. In many hives, little or nothing of 
this matter is to be found in the void and empty cells, 
Bees in fuch hives or colonies muft moft ip jive up= 
on honey, and that alone. A 
Let us for once fuppole a ftock fupplied oth the great- 
eft plenty of what fome call Bee-bread ; I dare to fay it, 
from frequent obfervation and experience, they would 
certainly, and fpedily perifh, if at the fame ‘time they © 
were deftitute of other fupport. 
-Oft have I found this verified, greatly to my sles 
tage; many ftocks at the end of May full of Bees, and 
the fwarms daily expected, thus mifcarrying; not for 
want of that fort of bread, of which there was fufficient 
ftore, but for want of more agreeable and neceflary food, 
Great numbers being bred that fpring, all the former 
provifion entirely fpent, and little honey to be had a- 
broad, both old and young have died together ; which I 
am very well aflured would not have happened, had 
thefe authors been right in their fentiments ; the Bees of 
the faid ftocks having for the fpace of three months or 
more carried very large quantities of that fort of bread 
into their hives, which was found therein; and yet the 
inhabitants died of famine, ahd according to thefe gen- 
Hemen perithed i in the midft of plenty. I have known 
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