Their Sex, &c. 8c 
‘But the Profeffor is not alone, I find 
others alfo erring herein ; particularly Mr. 
Purchas, who not only aaiats the Sovereign 
or Governour to be a Queen, but alfo that 
fhe injects a fpermatic Subftance, thick 
like Cream, into the orbicular Celle, where 
the Queen-Bee is bred perfect at firft in all 
her Parts.* .What! Doth the very fame In- 
fet difcharge the different Offices of King 
and Queen? perform the Work both of Male 
and Female? and at once lay Eggs, and 
Inject Sperm? How can this be? What Oc- 
cafion would there be for Drones, upon 
fuch a Suppofition, and of what Ufe could 
they be in the Hives? 
How do thefe Gentlemen at once con- 
tradict themfelves, and confefs (in Effed) 
their Ignorance herein’: ; not knowing whe- 
ther the Sovereign is Male or Female ; and 
fhould be dignified and diftinguifhed by the 
Title of King according to the Ancients, or 
of Queen according to the Moderns. | 
Dr. Butler declares this Bee fo neceflary, 
that he cannot be fpared, and the Bees with- 
out him cannot breed, - 
And tho’ he is not feen to engender with 
the Honey-Bees either abroad, as do other 
Infe&ts, or within the See yet without 
doubt he is the Male-Bee; by whofe na- 
tural Heat, and mafculine Virtue, the Ho- | 
G 3 ney- 
* Purchas’s Theatre of Polity, flying Infects, &c. p, 
29, 34. tT Butler’s Foem, Monar. chap. iv. p. 55+ 
