. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. liilO.). f), Me lluney Ike* 10 ceiln that Hliiij)o is no or lUiilu hecs tiro u ordinary or worker It'll witli a .snl)s(:inco L'liiil jirocured i'rom 1 is aUo used to stop n the com!) has to tiy others, and are of is placed in a royal )es the priuciploH of y. This practice is i there be no other iier own hive, iiud rith her. Should a battle at once, which m tilt; left the Worker; and NATUriAI, inSTOIlY, ;â¢)().". At the Hwnrniinj; time, the old (pieen is sadly put out iiy tJie encroachments of various youn
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. liilO.). f), Me lluney Ike* 10 ceiln that Hliiij)o is no or lUiilu hecs tiro u ordinary or worker It'll witli a .snl)s(:inco L'liiil jirocured i'rom 1 is aUo used to stop n the com!) has to tiy others, and are of is placed in a royal )es the priuciploH of y. This practice is i there be no other iier own hive, iiud rith her. Should a battle at once, which m tilt; left the Worker; and NATUriAI, inSTOIlY, ;â¢)().". At the Hwnrniinj; time, the old (pieen is sadly put out iiy tJie encroachments of various young (|iiei'n», who each wish foi the throm.', and at lawt is so agifiiti d that she rushes out of the hive, atti udod by a hirge body of .^ubjijcts, and thus the first swiu'ui is foniied. In seven or eight days, the ([Ueeii next in age also departs, taking witli her another sujijily of subjects. When all the swiuius have left the original hive, the remaining (|ueens fight luitil one gains the throne. The old niothod of destroying bees for the sake of tli»' honey was not only cruel but wasteful, as by burning Konir ihy " j)utf-ball " the bees are stupefied, and shortly return to consciousness. The employment of u " cup" on the hive is an excellent plan, as the bees deposit honey alone in these caiiM, without any admixture of grubs or bee-bread. Extra hives at the side, with a commuuicatior. .'nn the original hive, are also useful. The (pieen bee lays about eightc i thouaan^'. eggs. Of these about eight liundred are males »r '^(Jnos, it il four or five queens, the remainder being worke. t. THE SWALLOW-TAILKD RUTTERP'LY. We now arrive tit the Haustellato Insects, so called, because they suck liquid food through an a[i])aiiitus resembling the proboscis of an elepluint. The tinst order of haustellate insects is the Lkpidoi'TKHA, containing the butterflies tuid moths. The butterflies alwiiys fly by day, from which circurustance they are sometimes called D
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