| Their Sex, &c.. 183 
day all'that will be ufeful to the Male-Bees, 
‘or Drones, they are abfolutely neceflary to 
ithe Breeding of Bees; ‘haftening them by 
‘their Heat, and keeping the Eges warm: 
‘Therefore it is better to kill fix working 
Bees, than one of ‘thefe in May, or the 
Beginning of “Sune. ‘So-far the Doctor, — 
‘Mr. Bradley fays, the Conformity there 
‘is between ‘the inward Parts of common Bees 
“and ‘Drones ‘is fuch; that’ we have not been 
able to difcern any Difference between them ; 
only ‘the Parts ‘fituated at the Extremity of 
‘the Belly are very different from thofe of 
-the Bees. | i 
The Bees‘have a little Bladder which con- 
tains the Poifon, difcharged by ‘the Sting — 
thro’ which it pafles; but the Drones ‘have 
‘neither Sting nor Bladder; yet have they 
fome other ‘Parts, which may lead us ‘to 
underftand ‘the End for which Nature hath 
_defigned them. 
We obferves four -glandulous cylindrical 
Bodies under ‘the Inteftines ; and ‘inferts a 
‘large Account .of fix or feven Pages, not 
much ‘to the Profit or Edification of many 
of his Readers. 
'Then adds (pag. 256.) tho’ “it is difficult 
for us to know exactly the Ule of thefe 
Parts, yet may we fay with fome Probabi- 
lity, that they appear to have been formed 
for Propagation. 
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