Wars and Robberies of Bees. lig 
be owned, the pooreft are moft addiéted to pil- 
fering. 
Here it is neceflary to inform the reader, 
how thefe robbers are to be diftinguifhed as 
well as how to get rid of them. When a num- 
ber of bees are feen crowding into a hive, and 
many dead bees, lying flaughtered before the 
gates ;—-when others are feen flying as if af- 
frighted, and the native bees purfuing, catch- 
ing, wreftling,, and buftling with them upon 
the ftool, in -a moft furious manner, then it 
may be fafely inferred that robbers are attack- 
ing the hive; which indeed, if it be weak in 
- numbers, will not be worth preferving. In 
that cafe, the beft way will be, to turn up the 
hive, and diflodge the robbers by rapping upon 
it, and at night to put the bees belonging to 
it into any other hive that will receive them. 
The manner of doing this will be taken notice 
of, when we come to mention the beft mode of 
-re-inforcing a hive. Butif the hive that is 
attacked be tolerably full of valiant bees, who 
withftand their foes ftoutly, then let the entry 
be made fo fmall, that only one bee can get in 
at once, and let fome perfon ftand beforethe hive 
with alight cloth in his hand, to wave the rob- 
bers afide, and keep them off, till a thower of 
rain, 
