Archive image from page 115 of An enquiry into the nature,. An enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees .. CUbiodiversity1188016 Year: 1765 ( io8 THE HISTORY OF BEES. c H A P> VI. O/- &? Swarming and Hiving of Bees. HE principal reafon why they fwarm is «« the want of room. Therefore in co- ' lonies, where they are not at all ftrait- ' ened, they feldom or never fwarm, «c except (fays Mr. Rufden) thro' diftafte, difturbance, €i or mifmanagement. ' And in hives they fwarm not merely for want of f room, without other concurring circumftances; fuch ' as a king in Treadinefs ; mu
Archive image from page 115 of An enquiry into the nature,. An enquiry into the nature, order, and government of bees .. CUbiodiversity1188016 Year: 1765 ( io8 THE HISTORY OF BEES. c H A P> VI. O/- &? Swarming and Hiving of Bees. HE principal reafon why they fwarm is «« the want of room. Therefore in co- ' lonies, where they are not at all ftrait- ' ened, they feldom or never fwarm, «c except (fays Mr. Rufden) thro' diftafte, difturbance, €i or mifmanagement. ' And in hives they fwarm not merely for want of f room, without other concurring circumftances; fuch ' as a king in Treadinefs ; multitude of fubjedts, prof- ' pe£t of plenty; together with weather, which is in- e viting. Every fwarm is compofed of all the three forts, viz. a Queen, great numbers of common Bees, both old and young, and Drones, whofe numbers are uncertain; fome fwarms have more of thefe than others. Dr. Butler is of opinion, that thofe fwarms which have moft Drones will moft furely profper, but I doubt it, till I fee it pro- ved. The multitude of fwarms does not predict or promife the profperity of an apiary. Witnefs the laft fummer; m which 1 had no lefs than 86 or 87 fwarms; a confide- rable number of which at Michaelmas, had not honey half enough to maintain them till the fpring. The
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