Lheir Sex, &e. 103 
cated their Nofrum to others, laying fo 
great a Myftery open to Mankind, which 
now muft remain juft as it was. 
Again I object, it is as univerfally known, 
- that the Drones are entirely expelled the End 
of Fuly, or the following Month, and yet 
the Bees continue their Breeding thro’ Au 
guft, September, and Part of October, if the 
_ Seafon is encouraging. 
In one Hive, which I took at Michaelmas- 
Day lat, I found confiderable Numbers of 
young Brood in feveral Combs in different De- 
grees of Perfection (tho’ all of them clofe fealed 
up;) fome Maggots, fome Nymphs, and o- 
thers perfect in all their Parts, ready to 
make their publick Appearance, or actually 
difcharging themfelves from the difagreeable 
Confinement. 
Befides, it ought to be here remarked, 
that even thofe Stocks, which have no 
Drones among them, breed their Young 
(proportionably to their Numbers) with e- 
qual Expedition and Difpatch, with thofe 
which are full of Drones, as 1 am able to 
atteft from my own perfonal and multiplied 
Experiences; which methinks tends not a little 
to diminifh their nutrimental Influences. 
Nor fhould it be forgot, or overlooked, 
that feveral Weeks before their ‘total Expal- 
fion, they gather together in a diftinét Body 
by themfelves, feparate from all the Reft; 
as tho’ they entered a moft folemn Proteft 
H 4 againtt 
