•THE BEE. 
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to touch it. In a Angle day or two after being placed 
there, it produces a worm, which the working .bees take 
care to fupply with fuitable food, confiding of a whitiih 
liquor, which ferves it at once for fnbfiflence and a bed ; 
for it lies upon it, folded up like a ring. In the fpace 
of fix or feven clays more, the whole of its growth is 
completed ; and the bees, who know the time at which 
it no longer needs to be fupplied with food, ceafe to 
carry it any more. The lad office which they render it, 
is doling up the mouth of the cell, which is done with 
wax. 
In the mean time, the young animal within, which 
hitherto was almod entirely inactive, begins to fpin filk, 
and line the inficle of its habitation, as a preparative to its 
entering into the chryfalis date, in which it for a while 
remains. Thus, in the fpace of about three weeks after 
it was fird dropped into the ceil, the young bee is ready 
to make its appearance as a winged animal. The fird 
employment, after it has arrived at that period, is to 
gnaw off the wax with which the mouth of its cell had 
been dopped up. On its fird iffuing from the cell, the 
whole body is wet with the humid fubdance of the cell ; 
but the affectionate bees flock around, and with their 
trunks aflid it in wiping off the moidure. The wings 
grow dry, and the limbs firm ; and in the courfe of the 
fame day, it iffues forth with the labourers to colled wax 
and honey, and thereby to make returns to the fociety 
for the care with which it has been reared. 
Thus, after the commencement of fummer, the number 
of bees daily continues to increafe, till, by the month of 
June, they have become fo numerous, that the fame hiye 
can no longer contain them. The only meafure which 
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