*5 
Of Beef. 
tion from what they were before in their 
prime ; As may be obferved in Ants, who 
are all young lufty and laborious in the 
Spring, in the middle of Summer lay their 
eggs, andfoon after become aged, winged, 
and dull $ and fb at a little above a years 
end leave their Colonies to their vigorous 
SuccelTors. The fame may be obferved in 
Silkworms hatched in May, flourifhing 
and laborious in Jnne and July, and in Au- 
grji engendring, growing old, winged and 
dying, in four Months beginning and end¬ 
ing their lives. And many other Infers 
after the lame manner, begin their lives in 
one form or fhape, and determine them in 
another 5 begin labourers, and end breed¬ 
ers. Therefore it is not difficult to con¬ 
vince any ingenious Scrutiniff, that Bees in 
the Spring, before breeding time, are ge¬ 
nerally all of one Species, laborious and 
induftrious. And that the feed left by the 
old decayed Bees of the precedent year, do 
by decrees hatch and become a new pro¬ 
geny in the Spring following: And that 
then the old fuperannuated Bees become 
layers of eggs, in order as they are in age, 
fome being not (bold nor decaying fb foon 
as others, which eggs by the warmth of the 
feafon and plenty of nqurifhment, are fuc- 
ceffively 
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