. An enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees ... Bees. 98 THE HISTORY OF BEES. ed, they rofe again four times, and I returned them as often ; at twice I took from them two commanders, four at two other times, and another time three; being nine in all: after which they rofe no more. The remaining Sovereign, and the other which went out with the fwarm, made them up eleven in all, which I concluded was the whole number bred in that colony, not finding any o- ther expelled and (lain. But as a fingle flock feldom fwarms ofcner than twice or thrice, and a few of the blood royal are fu
. An enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees ... Bees. 98 THE HISTORY OF BEES. ed, they rofe again four times, and I returned them as often ; at twice I took from them two commanders, four at two other times, and another time three; being nine in all: after which they rofe no more. The remaining Sovereign, and the other which went out with the fwarm, made them up eleven in all, which I concluded was the whole number bred in that colony, not finding any o- ther expelled and (lain. But as a fingle flock feldom fwarms ofcner than twice or thrice, and a few of the blood royal are fufficient, it is very probable the number feldom amounts to fo many. Our numbers thus multiplying, and hives filling a- pace, and ready to grow up into more families, in iwarms fcon expected, the next thing to be done, is to provide them convenient habitations; which leads them to take a furvey of their Ikill in geometry and aYchitec- ture in the following Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Thorley, John, 1671-1759. London, J. Waugh, printer
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