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seized the colony, and they realise that their mother 
has indeed gone beyond hope, another queen may be 
at once accepted as her substitute. To which must 
be added that, later on, the bees would, as we have 
already more than once noticed, start queen-cells, so 
that the void may be filled, and then again they in- 
stinctively refuse to accept an alien. 
The impossibility of determining the favourable 
Fig. 86.— Introducing-Cages (Scale, i). 
A, Raynor Cap;e— w, Movable Wire; pU Rest-plate: wrf, Upper Door; Id, Lower 
Door. B, Alley Cage— we, Wire Cloth ; in. Mortise Opening ; r. Rest-piece. 
moment with any certainty practically renders its 
existence useless ; and, indeed, in many conditions 
of the colony, the favourable moment never appears. 
Bee-keepers have therefore had to face the difficulty, 
striving to conquer by plans naturally dividing them- 
selves, as follows : first, wearing out the instinct of 
antipathy to a mother-in-law, by using some form of 
cage ; second, putting the instinct into abeyance, by 
stupefying or disorganising, and rendering hopeless ; 
