FORMATION OF SWARMS. 3/ 
to encourage the bees to construct 
royal cells. If, in these circumstan¬ 
ces, the weather is favourable, it is 
not impossible that a second may be 
formed, and that the queen depart 
at the head of it, three weeks after 
conducting the first swarm. But in 
our climate this circumstance is rare. 
In the moment of swarming, the 
queen first becomes agitated, and then 
communicates her agitation to the 
rest of the swarm: the heat of the 
hive then becomes insufferable to them. 
It has been ascertained that there is 
nothing singular in the agitation of 
bees when swarming, but they are 
