kind of plaster and the Woodpicrccr,. saw dust, for the same purpose.

The species the most important to us, is the common honey 13cc, which has always been celebrated as an example of industry, order, and foresight; though these qualities must be ascribed solely to an instinct, which impel* these animals to pursue their occupations with certain success, from always adopting the same mode of accomplishing (hem. The same Power that has endowed them with these dis positions, has also furnished them with organs suited to their operations.

A swarm of bees is composed of three kinds: a female or queen; and labourers, which are supposed to be, of no sex. There is seldom more than one queen in a hive, though more have been occasionally observed, The males are few in number, compared with the labour ers, who probably exceed them in the proportion. of an hundred to one. The queen is not so large in the trunk as the males, and rather larger in every part than the labourers. 11cr size and shape diilr in summer from what it is in the winter, being then much larger ; and she has a sting similar to that of the working bee, an instrument of defence, of which the male bee, or drone, is destitute. For this de iciency we shall hereafter find a reason. The

structure.