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The following facts will show that the impregnation of the queen by the drone, in the open air, may be made a matter of ocular demonstration: Lewis Shrimplin, of Wellsboro', Brook County, Virginia, purchased a mova- ble-comb hive, in the Spring of 1857, into which he put a second swarm. Finding, after a few days, that the bees had built a number of very straight combs, he called some of his neighbors together, to witness the ease with which he could take out, and replace their combs. While stan...d- ing in front of the hive, he saw the queen coming out, and the idea occurred to him to catch her, and tie a very fine silk thread to one of her thighs. This he accomplished successfully; and as she began to ascend,* the drones by which means these can act by pressure, in the interior of the body of the bee, upon the neighboring penis which is to be protruded." "The following interesting experiment" (Parthenogenesis, p. 64) " was made by Berlepsch, in order to confirm the drone-productiveness of a virgin queen.
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