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RAISING A QUEEN* 
departs to seek the males, returns 
to her hive, is joyfully received by 
ner subjects, and commences laying 
in forty-six hours afterwards. Thus 
the loss is repaired. 
CHAP. VI. 
MASSACRE OF THE MALES . 
Naturalists have always been ex¬ 
tremely embarrassed to account for 
the prodigious number of males found 
in most hives, which sometimes a- 
mounfc to two thousand , and which 
seem only a burden ou the commu¬ 
nity, since they fulfill no functions. 
