170 PERFECT SOCIETIES OF INSECTS. 
If two mutilated queens meet, they show not the slight- 
est symptom of resentment. While one of these con- 
tinues in the hive, the workers never think of choosing 
another ; but if she leaves it, they do not accompany her, 
probably because the heat is not increased by her put- 
ting them into the preparatory agitation’. 
I am, &c. 
* Huber, i. 316. 
