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and takes his Place ; then they are feen flying about 
the Hives, refrefhing, airing and emptying themt 
felves, and after fome time they return into the 
Hive, to propagate the Stock, and nourifh the 
Brood. 
‘There is in every Hive one Bee more beautiful in 
Shape and Colour than the reft, larger and longer 
than the working Bee, but not fo large as the Drone, 
the Wings are of the fize of the working Bee, but 
the Sting and ‘Tongue are lefs,fo that the is not made 
for Flight or Work, fhe is called the Queen-Bee, 
becaufe no Swarm of Bees will profper without one 
of them, and no Swarm will go off without one or 
more, and when they fettle they kill all but one. 
Several Experiments have been made, by taking the 
Queen-Bee from a Stock, and returning her again, 
by which the Attachment of the Bees tothe Queen 
hath been difcovered. If fhe happen to drop in ~ 
{warming, or to be loft by any Accident from the 
Hive, the Bees dwindle to nothing, and forfake their 
Hive, unlefs another of the fame kind be brought to 
them, or another Stock joined to them, which, tho’ - 
weaker, hath a Queen-Bee with them. 
That Bees are annuals, or do not live above 14, 
or 15 Months, appears from feveral Obfervations, 
but chiefly from the great Decreafe of the Stock in 
the Months of Auguft and September, for which no 
Caufe can be afligned but the Death of the old ones = 
about that time they begin to dwindle in their Size, 
_.their Bodies wither, their Wings wear away, and 
they are moft frequently overcome with Labour and 
Age abroad in the Field, and never reach home: If 
they die in the Hive, their Fellows carry them 
forth, and drop them at thirty or forty yards Dif- 
tance from the Hive; their Young are left in Pot 
{effion of the Stock of Provifions, laid up for the 
Winter, and after they haye bred the enfuing Year, . 
and 
