86 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
But if the Doétor means, that this is food for the 
young Bees after they are bred, and abroad in the hive, 
(elfe he fays nothing to the purpofe) I deny it; well 
knowing, that both Queens, Commons and Drones, live 
only upon honey. In many hives, little or nothing of 
this matter is to be found in the void and empty cellsy: 
Rees in fuch hives or colonies muft moft don live ups 
on honey, and that alone. : 
Let us for once fuppofe a ftock fapplied with the ie 
eft plenty of what fome call Bee-bread ; 1 dare to fay it, 
from frequent obfervation and experience, they would 
certainly, and fpedily perifh, if at the fame time they 
were deftitute of other fupport. 
Oft have I found this verified, greatly to my difadvan- 
tage; many flocks at the end of May full of Bees, and 
the fwarms daily expected, thus mifcarrying; not for 
want of that fort of bread, of which there was fufficient 
ftore, but for want of more agreeable and neceflary food. 
Great numbers being bred that fpring, all the former 
provifion entirely fpent, and little honey to be had a- 
broad, both old and young have died together ; which I 
am very well affured would not have happened, had 
thefe authors been right in their fentiments ; the Bees of © 
the faid flocks having for the {pace of three months or 
more cafried very large quantities of that fort of bread 
into their hives, which was found therein ;’ and yet the 
inhabitants died of famine, and according to thefe gen- 
dlemen perifhed in the midft ee plenty. “I have known 
‘both 
