Of the Natural Swarming of Bees. 151 
from the following fymptoms, that this wifhed 
for period is approaching. | 
When the number of bees in a hive increa- 
fes faft, about the end of May and beginning 
of June, and drones appear among them; if 
a fhort time beiore this, water of an infipid 
tafte appeared on the ftool, about or within 
the entry ; if this water, which is called /weat, 
and is occafioned by the increafed heat of the 
hive, be dried up, by the {till greater increafe 
of that heat, from the bees becoming more and 
more numerous ; if the bees, about 11 o'clock, 
A.M. fly about in a reeling manner, making a 
noife and motton.about the front of the hive ; 
all thefe are figns to put the Bee-mafter on his 
guard, and to prepare him for the joyful event 
that is faft approaching, of a young colony 
within a day or two, or even, perhaps, with- 
in an hour or two. But if the bees, after 
all this, run haftily up and down the outtfide of 
the hive, and at laft gather together in a clufter 
upon the ftool, he may call his friends toge- 
gether, to behold his increafing ftore, as he 
may depend that they will {warm immediate- 
ly: * and nothing can furely be more delight- 
ful 
* It is indeed furprizing, to fee the young colony leaving their 
mother» 
