Drones ; are. Stee potsah torthe wide World; and 

94. The Hiftory of Bers. | 
and confiderable Numbers, or many Broods 
are continually compleated, before one of 
thefe fuppofed Males are to be feen among 
them. 
Thefe Bronce make no Appeatance, nor 
do they exift, till the Hives are near filled 
with Bees, and ‘the Swarms in great Forward- 
nefs ; but. ate expected in a fhort Time af- 
ter thefe are feen. 
It is too evident to be contradicted or dif- 
puted, sthat the Drones are all expelled, and 
flain at the Clofe of the preceding Summer; 
the latter End of Fuly, or in Auguft (if the 
Sovereign is in Safety.) Henceit follows, 
there can be .no Drones in :the Hives for 
at leaft eight or nine Months together. This 
Is true in Fadt, as I have always found at-the 
Time of Union, when not one Drone is 
to ‘be feen. 
 A-modern Author then was sreatly mif- 
taken,* when he tells his Reader that admalt 
Number of thefe are left; a few \of them 
referved, to fupply the WNecefflities of the 
enfuing Year. Which Circumftance: (fays 
he). I the rather take notice of, becaufeithe 
Queen is pregnant again in the Springs 
tho’ the Drones ithat are amongft them are 
very little, if any darger than the Common 
Bees. Another of ,\his numerous Errors! 
~ Then hetells-you:in thefame Page, the poor 
their 
° Nat. Delin. p. 90°. 
