COMBATS OF QUEENS. 
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We have already seen the great 
animosity which the first hatched 
queen bears to her rivals ere they 
leave their cells. She instantly at¬ 
tacks them, and, if not strongly guard¬ 
ed by the workers, they would soon 
fall victims to her fury* 
In a hive, two queens left their 
cells at the same moment. When they 
observed each other, they rushed to¬ 
gether with great violence, and each 
seised her rived in such a position, 
that the extremity of their bodies had 
only to be curved, when they might 
be reciprocally pierced with the stings, 
and both fall dead together. Nature 
