SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. Wy 
naked hand placed upon the glass will be sufficient to convince any one 
of the fact, without the aid of a thermometer. They have the power 
of increasing or concentrating their own animal heat whenever it is ne- 
cessary for the purposes just specified. 
MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY. 
A colony or swarm of Bees is composed of the Queen, the Worker, 
and the Drone. ach has distinct offices to fulfil, and all are impor- 
tant in their bearing upon the welfare of the society, or body politic 
which they form. They never revolt. They remain true to their or- 
ganization, until death separates them. 
THE QUEEN. 
The Queen is the mother of the whole family of which she by instinct 
and by common consent, is constituted the head. She is distinguished 
from the other Bees both by her shape, color, and size. She is larger every 
way than the common worker, and longer even than the drone, and 
different in her proportions from either. The rings of the abdomen 
are less fully developed, or less visible. She has a more delicate structure 
than the drone, is more wasp-like in her appearance, with an abdomen 
more nicely tapered, or pointed at its extremity. She is of a darker 
color upon the back, especially upon the back part of the abdomen, 
than either the the worker or drone. Upon the lower side of the ab- 
domen she presents a yellowish, or semi-orange appearance. Her 
wings, when compared with those of the worker or drone, are wider, 
stouter, and shorter, in proportion io the length of her body. She is 
seldom on the wing, and is seldom seen except at the time of swarming, 
and when she comes forth in the open air to be impregnated by the 
males. She lays all the eggs from which the increase of the colony — 
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