49 Account of the Drone Bee. 
arguments in refutation of this doctrine, as I 
have already fhown (pages 56, 57,58) thatI have 
repeatedly had Queens breed and lay eggs, and 
thofe eggs become bees, although thefe Queens 
were bred feven months after all the drones 
were dead, and fome weeks before any new ones 
were hatched. Thefe experiments, I think, are 
fufficient to filence all the arguments advanced 
by the advocates for the drone fyftem. Mr 
DEBRAW, indeed, creates /ittle drones, and gives 
them power to live all the year, and to impreg- 
nate the Queen at pleafure. But as room does not 
permit me to narrate the experiments whereby 
i e attempts to prove this, .I fhall content my- 
felf with {tating his fentiments in as few words’ 
as poflible. He afferts, that, befides the com- 
mon large drones, which every perfon, ac- 
quainted with bees, knows at firft fight, there. 
is a fmall kind of drones, which are, to all ap- 
pearance, like.the common bees, there being 
no vilible difference, except that they have no 
fting, which he difcovered by immerfion in 
water, and preffure. After relating an experi+ 
ment on this head, he fays, “ I once more 
* immerfed all the bees” (of -a {mall {warm) 
“in water, and when they appeared to bein 
“ a fenfeleds ftate, | gently prefled every one of 
“ them 
