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"A voice is heard" — Virg. : Gear., \v 126 



Texan Bee Journal. The Southland Queen. March, 



1898 128 



Arist.: Hist. An., ix. 11 129 



Pliny, ix. vii. 11 130 



The mating of the queen and drone of the hive-bee takes 

 place high in the air and has seldom been seen by man. 

 Consequently the ancients and even the moderns, up 

 to recent times, were greatly puzzled on the subject of 

 the generation of bees. Even Swammerdam believed 

 the bees were fecundated by emanations from the 

 drone. Huber explained the true method of mating, 

 which has been repeatedly verified since, and which is 

 very curious ; since it is necessary for the queen to 

 become impregnated c|uickly and at the same time to 

 receive a large amount of fertilizing material for future 

 use, she returns to the hive bearing with her the or- 

 gans of the male. It is this loss and the consequent 

 mutilation that causes the death of the drone in a few 

 hours. It seems to be analogous to the loss of the 

 sting, which so frequently occurs among workers, and 

 always with fatal results. 



The queen will continue to fly abroad every day for 

 several days if she does not succeed in mating; but if 

 she does not mate before a certain length of time, or if 

 she fails to mate at all, she will never lay any but un- 

 fertilized or drone eggs 133 



Huber: Obs. on Nat. Hist. Bees . ' 134 



" In the vast creation " — Latreille : Hist, of Insects under 



article Bees. Quoted by Huish 137 



Packard'' s Guide to the Study of Insects 138 



'"'^^QS^restrvQ" — Huber : Obs. on Nat. Hist. Bees . 139 



Cheshire: Bees and Bee-keeping 140 



A.I. Root: A. B.C. of Bee mature 144 



John B7irroughs : locusts and Wild Honey. The Pas- 

 toral Bees j.g 



La?igstroth : The Honey Bee . . i c q 



