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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1744 edition. Excerpt: ...wild Bees. A wild Notion! their Nat. Ddin. p. go. In short, it is a difficult Matter to fay justly what becomes of them. Why such a Difficulty? when every common Bee-Master can easily account for it 5 great Numbers of them being stain, and often appear in Heaps, before the Hive or Colony; and the rest of them forced out by the Commons perish without Doors, as is easy to observe in or about your Apiary, and adjacent Parts. How defective this Author's Acquaintance was with our Insects appears by these Instances, besides many more. To return to the Argument. That these Animals should continue in a State of Pregnancy for so many Months, and then produce Young, and several Brood3 successively, one after another, and this without the Presence and Concurrence of the Male, is to me (I profess) a Mystery, unaccountable and unintelligible; not to fay impossible. Since so many Generations are bred before the Drones do appear, it is not possible; they should be either Males or Females. That such an Imj ossibility may more fully appear, and so give the Argument the greater Strength and Force, . I remark, that to my own certain Knowledge, the Bees sometimes breed all the Summer Season without Drones. Several poor and weak Stocks, which have but-but few Bees, and but little Honey, hatf hot any Drones among them all the.Season and yet these shall increase, prosper; arid breed Drones the following Summer. This is what I have many Times observed, know it by my own Experience to be true' in Fact, and as such I publish it to the World, and for Proof, I will give my Readers only one Instance instead of a Multitude. Once I had a Stock of Bees, which not only bred great Numbers all the Spring-Time, but also fWarmed without any Drones, as I was fully assured from the most...

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