Mr. Hunter's Observations on Bees. 
animal juice in the act of kneading it down ; for when brought 
in, it is rather a powder than a paste. That it is the food of 
the maggot is proved by examining the animal's stomach; 
for when we kill a maggot full grown, we find its sto- 
mach full of a similar substance, only softer, as if mixed with 
a fluid, but we never find honey in the stomach ; therefore we 
are to suppose it is collected as food for the maggot, as much 
as honey is for the old bee. Mr. Schirach imagines, that the 
semen of the male is the food of the maggot ; but the food of 
the male and the queen maggot has been supposed to be dif- 
ferent from that of the labourers. Reaumur says, the food of 
the queen maggot is different in taste from that of the com- 
mon ones. How he knew this, who was unacquainted with 
the food of the others, I cannot conceive. 
Of the Excrement of the Maggot. 
They have very little excrement, but what they do dis- 
charge is deposited at the bottom of the cell ; and what at 
first will appear rather extraordinary, it is never cleared away 
by the bees, but allowed to dry along with the maggot coats ; 
and both fresh eggs and honey are deposited in these cells, so 
circumstanced, every future year ; so that in time the cells 
become nearly half full. 
Of the Chrysalis State. 
In this state they are forming themselves for a new life : 
they are either entirely new built, or wonderfully changed, 
for there is not the smallest vestige of the old form remaining ; 
