ig2 Of Bee-bread and Wax. 
mur, however, fays, that it is abfolutely necef- 
fary for food to bees. | | 
For my part, I have always obferved the bees 
moit bufily employed in carrying in this ftuff 
while the young bees are breeding; but when 
they want a Queen, and have no. eggs to rear 
another, they immediately give over carrying 
it into the hive, thinking, (as it would feem,) 
that as they have no young bees to feed or feal 
up,in the cells,. it would be an idle bufinefs to 
bring any more of it home, efpecially as they 
do not make much ufe of it themfelves, and 
have more already in the hive than they will 
‘ftand in need of, for their own ufe. Mx 
THORLEY alledges, that the bees carry the wax 
home from the fields in fine fmall fcalest be- 
tween the folds of their bodies. He fays, that 
“ For feveral feafons, after | became a Bee-ma- 
“ fter, I was very defirous and diligent to find 
out how, or where, they brought home their 
wax, well knowing that grofs matter to be of 
a very contrary nature, and applied to fome © 
“other 
¢ Thefe fcales are well known by bee-mafters, and fomewhat 
tefemble fmall falt at a diftance, but, upon a nearer infpection, 
they are more like the fcales of very fmall fith, being thin, {mall, 
sound and white: Their furbftance is nothing but pure wax. 
