t|)i^ for winter’s use, are carefully covered with a lid 
..tlio , ®of wax. 
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THE BEE. 
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^^oney bees not only labour In common with a«to- 
assiduity and art, but their whole attention and 
^om to centre in tlie person of thb queen 
of g]?^ °f the hive. She is the basis of their association, 
* their operations. When she dies by any accident. 
^‘Ses. ,^'tsues throughout the community: all labour 
'■ ■ ’ here is an end to the construction of new 
1?*^ of * collection of either honey or wax. 
i(Nle j,^tiarchy the bees remain, until a new 
obtained, to effect which they have the power of 
workers, and converting them 
cells. 
In tliis 
new queen or 
selected Larvas, by supplj'i 
SOVen 
This they accomplish by greatly enlarging the 
' ' g them more co- 
a more pungent kind than is 
V to"Jv^ food, and that of 
4 , V ® common larvas. 
, itcjjj ' '“''nment or society of bees is therefore more of ? 
V'' ^ republican nature. All the membeni 
ok ?cem to respect and to be directed by a single 
V"'*' of ® strong instance of the force and 
kij female is the mother of the whole 
ever 
■% 
numerous ; 
'5 V ^Qt h 
^ continued, 
the hive with 
’<>ent.' 
and without her the species 
Nature lias therefore endowed 
a wonderful affection to their 
For the reception of her eggs nature im- 
cells, and to lay up stores of jirovtsions 
V'^tivg .^hsistence. These operations proceed from pure 
\V^s -I ’^pulses, it is true, but every instinct necessarily 
;S^»ot 
Qegree of intellect, a principle to be acted upon, 
,j “1 impulsion could be felt, nor could either 
'he intelligence possibly be produced. 
(l|.g®'^Plcct of SWARMS, the following are the con- 
to M. FInber, who has paid particular ar- 
th, 
Of 
First : a 
led off by a single queen, cither the 
Is „i economy and habitudes of bees 
''''■ ti ®:"'ays K,r o 
e, 
.'*1 be^^'^e'’utnent of a fertile queen, be examined, 
hive, or one recently brought into 
'tS’ fk ’ 3tthe retmn of spring, a well-peopled hive, 
«• t' ' he j ''C'’ument of a fertile queen, be examined, 
V On to lay a prodigious number of male eggs in 
■ thgj 'hie niondi of May, and the workers will 
foment for constructing several royal cells, 
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