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their former Activity with the return- 
ing Heat, and go forth to their La- 
bours, with their ufual Vigour and 
Alacrity. This gives us a plain and 
the true Reafon why more Bees are 
obferved to die in open and warm, 
than in cold and fevere Winters ; And 
for the fame Reafon, Mr. Gedde’s 
-Obfervation, I am confident, isa very 
yuft one, that Bees /landing on the 
North Side of a Building, whofe Height 
intercepts the Sun's Beams all the Win- 
ter, will wa/fte lefs of their Provifion (al- 
moft by half) than others flanding in the 
Sun; for, coming felduna forth, they 
eat little, and yet, in the Spring, are as 
forward to Work and Swarm, as thofe 
that had twice as much Floney in the 
Autumn before. 
Let your Bees therefore be fo placed, 
that the Sun may not fhine upon 
them at all in the Winter to entice 
them abroad, when they can get no- 
thing 
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