88 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
gation, ftep by ftep, till they are hatched and come fortly 
perfe  -Bees,* 
. Here alfo I mutt differ from the Door, who had fo 
‘i kept Bees in colonies, or tran{parent boxes, which 
gave him the opportunity of viewing them at all feafons, 
I wonder he was never fenfible of bis miftake, which 3 
little attention would have difcovered. 
Here therefore I mutt oppofe the Doéor (not for op- 
pofition’s fake, but becaufe it is matter of fact) and tell 
the world, what I have frequently feen myfelf, and fhewn 
to. many others, the young brood in the outermoft parts 
of the boxes and cells clofe to the back-windows. Firft 
the gg, afterwards the little worm, daily encreafing till 
fealed up in the cell and at laft opening a paflage thro’ 
the enclofure of wax, and forcing it’s way out, perfect 
in all it’s parts, tho’ not at it’s full growth and maturity, 
which feveral days more in the hive are neceflary to ac- 
complifh. ; 
_ It was an error therefore in another author, to fay the 
very day they quit the cells in which they were bred, 
you may fee them at work abroad, and bringing wax in- 
to their hives; which I am well affured, for fome time, 
they have not an ability for. 
It is eafy many times to obferve, when a {warm rifes, 
many of thefe young Bees forced out in the croud and 
hurry, creeping about the ground before the hive, but 
unable to fly, and return to their former refidence, or 
keep company with the reft 5 3 and confequently muft 
perith. 
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