A new and accurate system of natural history .. . /}ra^,^ . ? i 6 F INSECTS. 14^ By the ufe of thefe boxes, the time of their fwarm*ing may be known, for Bees do not leave their habi-tations but for want of room, which by this method,may be more or lefs, at pleafure. If they are con-fined to two boxes, they will fwarm early ; but ifthey are allowed three, the fwarm will be late andlonger. After the firll fwarm, it will be proper toprevent a fecond, by adding box after box, as oftenas they are filled. Such colonies as require four boxesto keep them from fwarming, will admit the mailerto take tw
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A new and accurate system of natural history .. . /}ra^, ^ . ? i 6 F INSECTS. 14^ By the ufe of thefe boxes, the time of their fwarm*ing may be known, for Bees do not leave their habi-tations but for want of room, which by this method, may be more or lefs, at pleafure. If they are con-fined to two boxes, they will fwarm early ; but ifthey are allowed three, the fwarm will be late andlonger. After the firll fwarm, it will be proper toprevent a fecond, by adding box after box, as oftenas they are filled. Such colonies as require four boxesto keep them from fwarming, will admit the mailerto take two of the boxes in the autumn. If iVIothsfhould happen to fpin their Webs in any box, it multbe either taken away, or cleanfed. Ic has been foundby experience, that when Bees fwarm late, and want-ing provilions of their own, they cannot be prefervedby giving them honey, becaufe it either corrupts, orthe crude wax, called Bee-bread, is necelTary to theirfupport. When the two colonies therefore are weak, there is no way to preferve them ; for they