Of the Bees Enemies . 
Indeftroying the Hornets you muft bee warie : tor one 
flinging doth ofttimes caufe a Feuer, and leile than thirtie,as 
fome fay, will kill a man. Ibhu crabromm hand temere fine 
febri eft. Anflores funt ter tiovenis pwtctu inter fici homiritm. 
The Wafpe doth much more hurt than the Hornet. For 
the Hornet now and then killeth a Bee : but the Wafpe wa- 
ftech the Honie, whereby many whole Stalls doe perilh. For, 
befides the harme that fhedoth hir felfe,(he doth ofttimes fee 
the Robber v. on workc : who, when the Wafpe hath be- 
gun, will be readie to take part with her,and then all goes to 
wracke. A Wa(pe is by nature harder andftronger than a 
Bee, Ipecially in Libra : infomuch that ofttimes (he brcaketh 
from two or three of them, though they haue all hold of her 
at once : and perhaps killeth oneof them out of hand. Ac 
(fanccr, or, the Spring being hot and drie, in the later part 
ofthc former moneth, the Wafpe beginneth to bee bred: 
within a monech after (hee firft appeareth : and in a while (he 
beginneth to feed vpon dead and weake Bees : which (hee 
quickly cutting offin the middle with hir Fangs , firft carri- 
eth away the neather-part ; and anon fetcheth the other, 
when (lie hath bitten off the wings ( for eafier carriage ) not 
farre from the place where (he rooke it vp. 
Within a morceth after hir comming abroad, (bee waxeth 
bold, andaduenturech into the Hiues for honie: hut, by rea- 
fon of the ftrangeneireof hir voice and habit, (hee is deferied 
before (hee come neere. And at the firft (while the weather 
is warme, and the Bees both early and late keepe watch and 
watrd at the Hiuesdoore) comming (ingle againft many, (he 
is commonly repulfed , and fent backe againe with a Flea in 
hir eare ; and if by chance (hee flip in, (hee doth not alwaies 
efcape. Sometime (hee is killed in the Hiue, and brought 
forth dead : fometime without the doore, when (lie hath got 
hir prey. But afterwards, the weather waxing cold, and fpe- 
cially in mornings and euenings , and the Bees therefore re- 
tiring from the doore higiier into the Hiue ; the Wafpes 
make great fpoile,fpecially among them that are weake. And 
this they continue vntill Scorpio : after which time they be- 
gin to weare, Neucrthclefife while they liuc, that is vntill 
Qji Sagittariw 
c 7 . 
30 . 
The Hornet* 
fling it dang*- 
raw. 
Nat.luft.li. ii, 
c. II. 
XI. 
6,Tbt It’ajfe. 
V. k. 1 
8 . 
Ft. 
When fhefeedttb 
ypoti B?«y 
» 3 * 
Hdjtn/heJieaUtie 
Henie. 
X 4 « 
When they Veetn 
away. 
