The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler.
- Charles Butler
- Date:
- M.DC.XXXIV
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The feminin' monarchi', or the histori' of bee's. Shewing their admirable natur', and propertis; their generation and colonis; their government, loyalti, art, industri; enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, etc. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim': and the sweet' profit arising ther'of / Written out of Experienc( by Charles Butler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1 I * Itl'c f again. round lik* a ring, on* end* toucing de oder, til fo de bottom til it b« grown to de ful bignes of a Bee*: and den doo*t de Woorm dy*, and becoommct void of all motion and fens: and fo is Jut up in de Cel, de Bee*s coovering de top clof* wit wax. I? De Grub basing nou ded, prefently beginnet de alterati- pe ivco) m for- on from 3 Woorm to a wic is two-fold: Qin /ap*, and ln c®1Iour] alteration in jap*, isdedivifion in de %en middle: den de oder divifion between de hed and/oulders: (wenc* it is called infettum) after dat, de growtof de hed, legs, wings, and oder parts into deir fipc and fa/ion. De firft dat alteret in coollour from wit* to broun, is de upper part: andofde upper partde hed : andofdc heddeeys. De uniform /ap* and wit* coollour of de Wcorm, beeing dus altered into de proportioned/ap* and brouni/ coollour of a Bee*,/® beginnet to moov* again,and to liv hir fecond lif‘: & den breaking de coover wer*wit fie was enclcfed in de Cel, fie coofnmct foort* a flying Bird. Foetn pefito incu- bant, exclufm inde vermicultu, dam parvtu eft,jacet in favo obliquw: poftea fua ipfe facu/rate fe erigit, cibumtfcapit. Fee- tm apum & facorum Candidas eft : ex ejao verrmcaU fiant, qui in apes facoff^tranfeant: Of wi-e de Poet, Nonne vides, ejuoscera tegitfexanottla,foetus Melliferarum Apiamfine membris corpora nafei? Ft ftroffj pedes, ferafjj ajfumere pennas ? And all dis witin de fpac* of a mcont. Yea, in (warming*, tiin*, wen de Hiv cs hav* mor* heat, partly from de aier, and partly from de multitud* of Bee's; wen alfode Schadons ne¬ ver want deir fit of Ncttar, Ambrofta, and fair Water, con¬ tinually browgt in fre/and fre/unto dem; I hav*knowh dis effeded in tree weeks: aldowg Flint fpeaks of mor* dan *11' twic* io long a time Foetus intra 45. dtem peragitur. But de Lady-Bee*s ar bred in de feverall Palaces of de QasnS't'. after a peculiar aud mor‘ excellent manner. For de golden matter wer*of dey ar mad*, is not turned into a Woorm at all j but immediatly receiver de /ap* of a Bee*. <Pri- Hill, an lib.5* cap.zi. Mctam- hb.i^. Nat.hift-1, cap.16. 18 breeding of $e Lady-Bee's, f.c. 6. n, u. Or I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30337884_0088.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
