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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
186
Then
a
very
curious
scene
takes
place.
The
drones
are
no
more
use,
for
the
queen
will
not
fly
out
again,
and
these
idle
bees
will
never
do
any
work
in
the
hive.
So
the
worker-bees
begin
to
kill
them,
falling
upon
them,
and
stinging
them
to
death,
and
as
the
drones
have
no
stings
they
cannot
defend
themselves,
and
in
a
few
days
there
is
not
a
drone,
nor
even
a
drone-egg,
left
in
the
hive.
This
massacre
seems
very
sad
to
us,
since
the
poor
drones
have
never
done
any
harm
beyond
being
hopelessly
idle.
But
it
is
less
sad
when
we
know
that
they
could
not
live
many
weeks,
even
if
they
were
not
attacked,
and,
with
winter
coming,
the
bees
cannot
afford
to
feed
useless
mouths,
so
a
quick
death
is
probably
happier
for
them
than
starvation.
And
now
all
the
remaining
inhabitants
of
the
hive
settle
down
to
feeding
the
young
bees
and
laying
in
the
winter's
store.
It
is
at
this
time,
after
they
have
been
toiling
and
saving,
that
we
come
and
take
their
honey;
and
from
a
well-stocked
hive
we
may
even
take
30
lbs.
without
starving
the
industrious
little
inhabitants.
But
then
we
must
often
feed
them
in
return
and
give
them
sweet
syrup
in
the
late
autumn
and
the
next
early
spring
when
they
cannot
find
any
flowers.
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