THE HONEY-BEE. 
14 ? 
This fact, which, it must be acknowledged, occurs 
very seldom, is at variance with the doctrine of Huber, 
that the young Queen lays the eggs of workers only 
for eleven months successively. He admits, though 
not very explicitly, that a Queen hatched in spring 
may lay fifty or sixty drone eggs during the course 
of the ensuing summer, but he refers to the swarm 
led forth by the old Queen, exclusively, when he 
speaks of its producing a new colony in the same 
season in the course of a month after its first de- 
parture. With respect to the eleven mouths, it cer- 
tainly ^consists with our own experience, that, as Fe- 
burier asserts, the time occupied by the Queen in 
laying the eggs of workers before she begins that 
of drones, and, of course, those that shall produce 
Queens and their accompanying swarms, varies ac- 
cording to the temperature, and especially to the 
abundance of food. A swarm, for example, that 
came off at the end of June, sometimes throws off 
a swarm about the middle of the following May, which 
is little more than ten months of an interval, and, 
on the other hand, it sometimes happens that a hive 
which has swarmed at the middle of May, does not 
throw another till the end of June in the follow- 
ing year, which is above 13 months. 
On the Diseases and Enemies of Bees . — Much 
exaggeration has prevailed amongst apiarians on the 
subject of the diseases of bees, many of which, or 
rather most of which, seem, on careful examination, 
to have no existence but in the imagination of the 
observers. After long experience and attentive ob- 
