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{upetnumerary ones killed, 14.5 a fpare Queen, however, 
often ufeful, 67; little drones fuppofed to impregnate her, 
‘40, 71; the contrary proved, 72, 733 when a Queen dies 
in fpring, her lofs cannot be fupplied, 127 ; the author can 
caufe the bees rear as many as he pleafes, 140, 141; the 
Queen, the only allurement for bees in fwarming, 153; hides 
herfelf with great art on thefe occafions, 162; her petition 
er proclamation. to her fellow: emigrants, 1633; feveral 
young Queens fometimes in a hive, 7b. 165; their vaices 
different, 7b. ; conjecture refpecting them, 163 ; royal cells 
__torn by the young Queens, 164; old Queens fometimes 
head a colony, 24.3 the young ones often take an airing, 
165, 1663; when {warms meet they fometimes fight till one 
of their Queens be killed, 1763 hundreds of bees clufter 
round them, 24. ; either for attack or defence, 76.171; Queen 
to be kept clofe prifoner, 171, 1795 experiment with two 
| Queens in one hive, 173; a duel enfues, 1743 the author 
feparates them, and faves both, i+ ; confequences of the 
~lofs of a Queen, 180, 161 ; probable that fhe can lay only 
a certain number of eggs, 197; calculation of the number 
fhe lays each day, 198, 199 3 number at one time in her 
‘ovarium, 1993 the breeds amazingly faft, 2b. ; but in pro- 
portion to the ftate of the hive, 24.; fome Queens more 
fruitful than others, 72.; only one breeding Queen in a 
hive at a time, 72; age, when fhe becomes a mother, 200. 
Quotations from Triftram Shandy, iti.; Nature Delineated, 
165 Mr Key, 17, 18, 73, 222; Thomfon’s Seafons, 24, _ 
2.53; Schirach 53, 54 ; Bonnet, 54; Swammerdam, 68, 199. 
Debraw, 70; Stephen White, 103 ; Wildman, ros ; Virgil, 
4173 Thorley, 164, 192 ; Maxwell, 157, 192 3 Chevy chace, 
174. Reaumur, 191, 1993 Wheeler’s journey into Greece, 
225, 226; the Account of the theep in Spain, 226. 
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