106 TREATISE ON THE. 
is an object of indifference. At every repulse 
by the workers, she utters the shrill mono- 
tonous sound which is called piping, and 
which is heard for two or three days previous 
to the departure of asecond swarm, while the 
younger queens in confinement respond, 
sometimes two or three of them at the same 
time, in a voiee sounding hoarse out of their 
prison. Irritated by such opposition, and an- 
noyed at the sight of so many royal cells, in 
every quarter, the young queen becomes 
extremely agitated, 4nd at last rushes, to- 
gether with the Bees to whom she has im- 
parted her agitation, through the outlets of 
the hive, and thus form a second swarm. 
Circumstances sometimes occur to prevent 
the departure of a second swarm. If the 
young queen, as scon as hatched, set out in 
search of the males, and is impregnated, no 
farther emigration takes place ; because, be- 
ing now to become a mother, the character 
to which alone the Bees render their hom- 
age, she enters into the full possession of her 
rights, and is allowed to attack and destroy 
