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rest, and the restoration of the ordinary 
tranquility of the community, goes abroad 
on the following day, generally the fifth of 
her existence, to meet the males, and is im- 
pregnated. Forty-six hours afterwards, she 
commences Jaying the eggs of workers, and 
continues to do so for the eleven succeeding 
months. This doesnot, however, hold strict- 
ly true in every case, for it sometimes hap- 
pens, if the season be favorable, that the 
swarm led off by the old queen, produces, in 
about a month afterwards, a new colony, 
which is also by the same female. Before 
leaving the old hive, she had terminated the 
great laying of drone eggs, and thus became 
able to fly, from her greater lightness, and to 
set out to feund a new colony. In this she 
recommences the laying of eggs of workers, 
and continues to do so for ten or twelve days, 
after which she deposits a few drone eggs in 
cells which the Bees, as if aware that she 
would require them, have already prepared 
for their reception. These male eggs, though 
few, are enough to encoulege the Bees to 
