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short intervals. The same alarm may be 
heard until swarming takes place, or one 
Queen is destroyed by the other. The ob- 
server will generally hear two Queens at a 
time in the same hive — the one much louder 
than the other. The one making the least 
noise, is yet in her cell, and in her minority. — 
The sound emitted by the Queens is peculiar, 
differing materially from that of any other bee. 
It consists of a number of monotonous notes 
in rapid succession, similar to those emitted 
by the mud-wasp when working her mortar, 
and joining it to her cells, to raise miss-wasps. 
If, after all, the weather is unfavorable to their 
swarming several days while in this peculiar 
stage, they will not be likely to swarm again 
the same season. 
Bees are very tenacious to preserve the lives 
of their sovereigns, particularly those of their 
own raising ; and when they find they have 
more than one in the hive, they will guard 
each so strong as to prevent, if possible, their 
coming within reach of each other. They be- 
ing thus strongly guarded to prevent the fight, 
is unquestionably the cause of their giving the 
