MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 71 
three of their assailants along the board, and 
even to fly off with them, they are unable 
to avoid the mortal thrust of their formidable 
stings, and expire instantaneously from the 
effects of the poison. But death overtakes 
them in various forms; for their enemies 
sometimes seize them by the wings, and with 
their strong mandibles gnaw them at the 
roots, and disable them from flying. They 
may then be seen in numbers crawling on the 
eround, where they perish from the cold, or 
are trampled under foot, and devoured by 
birds or frogs. Such as escape for a while, 
may be seen flying from destruction, lighting 
on theshrubs and flowers to enjoy amoment’s 
respite from their terrors; or buzzing about 
from hive to hive, into one of which they no 
sooner enter, than certain death awaits them. 
Nay, so bitter is the fury of their tormentors, 
that, not satisfied with destroying these un- 
happy beings themselves, they tear from the 
cells such of the doomed race as are yet in 
the state of larve, and sucking from their 
bodies, with instinctive economy, the fluids 
