MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 5G 
Stances, which may be observed every hour 
in the day, in a properly constructed glass 
hive, have given rise to the idea of guards. 
The moment she has left the circle the Bees 
who had surrounded her instantly resume 
their labors, and she passes on, receiving 
from every group in her way the homage 
due to a mother and a queen. There is a 
fact connected with the instinct of the queen 
in laying her eggs, which deserves particular 
notice, and which I have not seen stated by 
any other writer on the subject of Bees. 
When she has laid a cluster of eggs, to the 
number of thirty or forty, more or less ac- 
cording to circumstances, on one side of the 
comb, instead of laying in all the empty cells 
in the same quarter, she removes to the other 
side, and lays in the cells which are directly 
opposite to those which she has just supplied 
with eggs, and, generally speaking, in none 
else. 'This mode of proceeding is of a piece 
with that wise arrangement which runs 
through all the operations of the Bees, and 
is another effect of that remarkable instinct 
