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Of Bees. 
the Weather permit them to fly abroad, or 
elfe in building Combs, as far as their room 
will faffer them and as it is for their own 
convenience. And thus do they build and 
breed until the end of July, and fometimes 
after. For whenBeeshave done Swarming, 
you may be confident they have done 
breeding, and not before. 
It is moft ftrange, yet true, that thefe 
Infedts, as foon as they are Hived begin 
their work, and the very next morning 
will they build a Comb j As it appeared by 
a Swarm, that upon fome diilike deferted 
their Hive the next day after their Swarm¬ 
ing, and left a Comb of four or five inches 
inlengih, with many deep wrought Cells 
in it. 
However from every Ingenious Bee-Ma- 
fter’s Annual Experience, I mayfafely con¬ 
clude, that Bees do not fpend their time 
in thefe Spring and Summer-months (whilft 
they breed ) in Luxury and Idlenefs, as by 
fome is imagined$ but to maintain and in- 
creafe their Colonies, during that part of 
the year that yields them plenty of Matter 
out of the various Blofloms that are abroad, 
for the building of their Combs and feed¬ 
ing their young} until not only that Mat¬ 
ter that is fit for thofe ufesceafeth, but un¬ 
til 
