managing bees. 
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Colonies that have lost their Queen, when 
standing on the bench by the side of other 
swarms, will run or fly into the adjoining hive 
without the least resistance. They will com-\ 
mence their emigration by running in confused 
platoons of hundreds, from their habitation to 
the next adjoining hive. They immediately 
wheel about and run home again, and thus 
continue, sometimes for several days, in the 
greatest confusion, constantly replenishing 
their neighbor’s hive, by enlarging their colony, 
and at the same time reducing their own, until 
there is not a single occupant left; and re- 
markable uS'it is, they leave every particle of 
their stores for their owner or the depreda- 
tions of the moth. 
Colonies lose their Queens more frequently 
during the swarming season than any other. 
In the summer of 1830, I lost three good 
stocks of bees in consequence of their losing 
their Queens, one of which was lost soon 
after the first swarming — the two others not 
many days alter the second swarming — all of 
which manifested similar actions, and ended 
in the same results, which are more particu- 
