OF their Sex, &c. 63 
ture, that in all probability, and as far as I arf: able to © 
judge, the full decifion hereof mutt be left to future nie, 
and the generations which are to follow. 
_ Which is the male, whether the Drone, the Sove- 
reign, or the common Honey-Bee, is the fubject of our 
prefeat enquiry. Some difpute with zeal for the Drones, 
fome for the royal Sovereign, and others for the Com- 
MPM igor Lis ! 
Ancient writers in general, philofophers, hiftorians, 
poets, and phyficians, together with feveral modern 
ones, viz. Butler, Purchas, Warder, Bradley, and others, 
plead for the Drones. Dr. Warder, in his true Amazons, 
or Monarchy of Bees,* affirms the ruler to be a female, 
as alfo the common Bees, and that the Drone is the only 
‘male. 
As to the fex of the laft there are many arguments, 
he fays, for what he afferts, as that all creatures breed 
male and female; and he being the biggeft, it is moft 
probable that he is of the male kind : yet in the next pe- 
riod confeffles, that it’s being in fubje@ion to the other 
Bees, is an argument againft him. 
But to put the matter into.a clear light, any perfon 
opening the belly of the Drone-Bee, he fhall find, in the 
fame manner.as in birds, a large pair of tefticles, as big 
as great pins-heads, milk-white, joined together upwards 
by the fpermatick veflel——The penis,-or inftrument 
‘of generation, is indeed.much.more ftrange, and will 
feem incredible to the reader, -till he hath tried the exe 
periment.—And in my opinion will appear the fame 
after fuch experiment. Yot 
® Warder’ s true Amazons, pag, 6,7, 8¢ 
