FORMATION OF SWARMS. 
unequally enlarged, but none so long 
as when the worms are hatched. 
On the 28 th, previous to which, 
the queen had not ceased laying, her 
belly was very slender, and she be¬ 
gan to exhibit signs of agitation. 
Her motions soon became more lively: 
she passed over the bees in her way; 
the first that were aroused by her 
motions followed her, running in the 
same way. The queen no longer de¬ 
posited her eggs in the cells, but let 
them fall at random $ nor did the bees 
any longer watch over their young: 
they ran about in every different di¬ 
rection: even those returning from 
the fields before the agitation came to 
