Of the Artificial Swarming of Bees. 175 
took the one ae appeared to be the boldeft, 
and put her again into the hive, where fhe was 
kindly received by the bees, and put the other 
Queen into another hive, to be dealt with, as 
_the bees might incline, as I had no other ufe 
for her at that feafon. 
| Let not my readers, from this account, fup- 
: a ng that the common bees are a race of cow- 
Dards, who will ftand regardlefs and indifferent, 
while their fovereigns or mothers are in dan-, 
gers On the contrary, they are a fet of brave 
and fatriotic warriors, who will rifk their-lives 
in defence of their hive, their property, or 
Me their-fovereign mother. But, when a duel 
a takes place between two Queen bees, they com- 
: ‘monly, nay almoft always, difpatch one of the 
a Queens themfelves. | 
) =r Case lll. If the rays of the fun have ae in- 
a tercepted by a cloud, Or 2: fhower of rain has 
occurred in the time of fwarming, the {mall- 
s nefs of the fwarm may be afcribed to thefe cir- 
yl cumftances having prevented the half of the 
young colony from leaving the mother hive. 
In this cafe, let the fwarm be placed where 
' the original hive ftood, for about a quarter of 
; an hour, in which time, the bees that are re- 
turning from the fields, will foon make the 
! fwarm 
