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frequently two, three, and four ; even six at one time 
come out. If these had to bite their way out, after 
the workers had decided it was time to start (for it 
must be therj decide it when the queens are shut up), 
they would hardly be in season. 
AFTER SWARMS DIFFERENT IN APPEARANCE FROM THE FIRST 
WHEN ABOUT TO ISSUE. 
Another thing, when after swarms start, the ap- 
pearance about the entrance is altogether different 
from first ones, unless there is an unusual number of 
bees. I have said that for a little time beforehand, 
that such were in an apparent tumult, &c. But after 
swarms seldom give any such notice. One or more 
of the young queens may sometimes be seen to run 
out, and back, several times in a few minutes, in a 
perfect frenzy ; sometimes fly a short distance, and 
return before the swarm will get started (which 
she could not do if confined). The workers seem 
more reluctant about leaving than in first swarms, 
when a mother instead of a sister is leader. Even 
after the swarm is in motion, she may return and 
enter the hive a moment. No doubt she finds it 
necessary to animate or induce as many as possible to 
leave with her. A person watching the issue of a 
second swarm under these circumstances, for the first 
time, and finding the queen leaving first, would very 
likely guess all must be alike. Perhaps the next one 
would be different ; the first thing seen might be the 
swarm leaving, and no queen discovered at all. But 
to return to the imprisonment of the queens. I have 
