2 6 Mr. debraw’s Difcoveries 
in deftroying the males, even thofe which might he fuf- 
pecfted to be fuch. 
I once more immerfed all the fame bees in water ; and, 
when they appeared to be in a fenfelefs ftate, I gently 
preffed every one of them between my fingers, in order 
to diftinguifh thofe armed with flings from thofe that 
had none, which laft I might fufpedt to be males. Of 
thefe I found fifty-feven, exactly of the fize of common 
bees, yielding a little whitifh liquor on being preffed be- 
tween the fingers. I killed every one, and replaced the 
fwarm in a glafs-hive, where they immediately applied 
again to the work of making cells; and on the fourth 
or fifth day, very early in the morning, I had the plea- 
fure to lee the queen-bee depofiting her eggs in thofe 
cells, which fhe did by placing the pofterior part of her 
bodv in each of them. I continued on the watch molt 
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part of the enfuing days, but could difcover nothing of 
what I had feen before. 
The eggs, after the fourth day, inftead of changing in 
the manner of caterpillars, were found in the fame ftate 
they were in the firft day, except thaefome of them were 
covered with honey. But a very lingular event happened 
the next day about noon : all the bees left their own hive, 
and were feen attempting to get into a neighbouring com- 
mon hive, on the ftool of which I found their queen dead, 
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