94 THE HISTORY OF BEES, 
honey-dew. Of which more in the next chapter, where’ 
will be confidered the: agreeable, and moft commodious 
habitations they build for themfelves, both as magazines 
for their treafure, and nurferies for their young; the ma- 
terials they employ therein, together with the ends and 
ufes of the fame, as alfo the method wherein the entire 
ftruéture is accomplifhed. 
The Drones owe their original to the fame caufe 
with the Honey-Bees ; generated after the fame manner, 
and with the fame circumftances, except in different ma- 
trixes or cells, defignedly built for them inthe Drone- 
comb: of which there is one in each hive; os ave 
and fometimes I have found three. — 3 
At other times I have obferved the fame comb coin- 
pofed partly of cells for the Honey-Bees, and the other 
part of the cells for the Drones ; fuch a one I faw in an 
hive in Oéfober 1743. But it is no new thing ; I have 
feen it frequently ; 3; and i. more, no doubt, have done 
the fame. 
But as there is fo great an identity betwixt the gene- 
ration of thefe two forts, it would be a vain and needlefs 
repetition to run over the preceeding particulars. 
The production of the royal ifflue, or the regents, is 
more peculiar, and very different from the other two, 
Generally near the edges, and at the bottom of the 
combs, atid fometimes from the fides of an honey-comb, 
are erected feveral oblong orbicular cells, of great 
ftrength, efpecially that part which is it’ 8 asi in which 
thefe princeffes are bred, Pena 
