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strong and active. Ihad to watch the hive 
with all diligence, and open the door and 
take out the queens as fast as they emerged 
from their cells, and kept them for the pur- 
pose of making artificial swarms—some of 
them escaped my notice, and I found them 
lifeless on the ground in front of the hive. 
I observed two circumstances respecting 
these artificial queens, which may benoticed 
here, though rather, perhaps, out of place, 
one of them agreeing perfectly with the ex- 
perience of Huber, while the other is at va- 
riance with it. While the surviving queen 
remained a virgin, not the slightest mark of 
attention or respect was shown to her by the 
Bees. No one gave her food,—she was ob- 
liged as often as she required it, to help her- 
self, and in crossing to the honey cells for 
that purpose, she had to scramble, often with 
great difficulty, over crowds, not an indivi- 
dual would get out of her way, or seemed to 
care whether she fed or starved. But no 
sooner did she become a mother than the 
scene was changed indeed, and all vied in 
ily 
