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her Abfence, continue on their Employment of 
feeding and bringing up the Young to Maturity ; 
which is otherwife in the Government of Bees, 
who upon the Lofs of their Queen, immediately 
forfake the Hive and difperfe. 
Thefe Paragraphs may at at fir ft Sight feem to 
Clafh * with the above mention’d Curiofity of the 
Black Queen. But this feeming Repugnance is 
eafily reconciled by fuppofing that her Attendants 
continued their excefiive Fondnefs in Expectation 
of a Parcel of Eggs, which they would long before 
have been fupplied with, had file not unfortunate¬ 
ly loft her Life. 
& 
In Offlober^ the Amts with their Queens begin 
to retire downwards, and in the Depth of Win¬ 
ter are to be found in fome of the remoteft Apart¬ 
ments encircled with a large Clufter of Attendants, 
and as it were benumbed. From "January to the 
beginning of May they lay Eggs at Intervals and 
Sparingly. From thence to September they come 
nearer the Surface. The latter End of June , and 
particularly in July % their Bodies are furprifingly 
diftended with Egg. All which by September, they 
commonly depofit. 
* See Page 25. 
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