MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 103 
cloud over the face of the sun, causing a 
sudden diminution of the light, is sufficient 
to step the emigration for a time, although 
all is in perfect readiness. 
The same effect is produced if, at the time 
of rushing out, there is a sudden change of 
weather,—a shower of rain however slight, 
or a gust of wind, will restore quiet instan- 
tanesusly. No sooner does the wind lull, 
and the sun shine out, though only fora 
second or two, than all the symptoms of rest- 
lessness and agitation are renewed, and the 
impatient emigrants rush out in myriads. If 
suffered to remain any considerable time on 
the spot where they have alighted in swarm- 
ing, the Bees are apt to rise again and take a 
new flight. But their flight now has a dif- 
ferent aspect from what it had on first leav- 
ing the hive. ‘They do not now hover roud 
the apiary, wheeling about in many circles, 
and in a kind of regular confusion, but dart 
away ina condensed body, and with a rapid 
wing, with a shrill whizzing sound, and al- 
most always in a straight line, asif they had 
