$4 Account of the Queen Bee. 
* Drones ; and affirms that all the working | 
“ bees are fernales in difguife; every one of 
“ whom, in an early ftage of her exiftence, was 
“ capable of becoming a Queen ; from a know- 
“ ledee of which fact, fwarms may artificially 
“ be obtained from the early months of pring, 
“ and in any fucceeding month, even to No- 
. © vember.” 
His experiments have been very numerous, 
and obviate every doubt and objection. He 
performed the operation, upon one and the 
fame ftock, for at leaft fifty or fixty times, from 
mere fragments of the combs, &c. &c. This: 
novel and wonderful doctrine excited no fimall _ 
contention, and not a few counter experiments 
among naturdlifts on the Continent, without 
being decided even by the great BonnET. He’ 
aflerts, which is indeed the grand and decifive 
proof, that “ the practice of this art, (of rai- 
“ fing artificial Queens,) has already extended 
“ itfelf through Upper Lufatia, the Palatinate, 
“ Bohemia, Bavaria, Silefia, and feveral parts of 
“ Germany, and even of Poland.” 
That a Queen can be raifed from an egg in 
a common cell, or, in other words, that the 
felf-fame egg is capable of being reared up to 
be either a Queen, or a common bee, as the 
: bees 
