oe 
and taught their Young.their Art of Management, — 
they go off in their turn, and leave their Pofterity 
to continue the Colony. ‘The chief time of breed- 
ing is in the Spring, earlier or later, according as the 
Seafon is more or lefs forward ; moft Authors agree 
March and Apri] are the breeding Months, fo that 
in May they {warm; but it fometimes happens upon 
a fudden’ Alteration of the Weather in the Spring, 
that the whole Hive is in Danger of perifhing : ‘The 
warm Weather in March encourages them to work 
and breed, upon a fudden change to cold or ftormy 
Weather, they have not Provition enough for the 
young Brood,which are daily encreafing, and being 
confined at home, they mutt perifh for Want, unlets 
they be carefully looked after, and fed at this time, 
and in this circumftance, of which in its proper 
Place. | 
_ The Female-Bee lays her Egg in the bottom on 
one fide of a Cell in a Comb, and'never puts more 
than one Ege in one Cell: Thefe Eggs are white, 
fomewhat bigger than a common Fly-blow, but not 
fo big as the Eggs of Ants. ‘They are laid in the 
Center of the Hive, no where within three or four 
Inches of the Top, Bottom, and Sides ; left they 
fhou’d be chilled with Cold, or not receive fufficient 
Heat from the Bees, which heap together between 
the Combs in the Hives, and fo be rendred abor- 
_ tive: This Ege fometimes turns into a Maggot, 
which is fed by the Mother-Bee with Sandrack or > 
Bee-Bread, for atime 3 it is then turned into an 4u- 
relia, after the manner of other Infects: In this ftate 
it is fhut up for a while in the Cell, by a covering 
of Wax; whence at length it comes out a perfect 
Bee, breaking the covering with its Head: This 
time of breeding takes up about one and twentyDays 
from the Ege to the Bee: ‘The young Bees are whir 
ter than the old ones, and are always fed for fome 
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