Show brigand bees be the little bee has been held up as an example for ages and in the main she thoroughly deserves her good character for virtue and industry it gives one a shock to learn that these thee the e little in sects occasionally fall into temptation and that the means of their downfall is similar to that which is the ruin of men and women in buchness Buch ners life of animals it is stated that inclined bees will in order to save themselves the trouble of work ng attack well stocked hives hive in mass s kill the sentinels and in babi habitants habitan tanto tg rob the hives and carry off ff the provisions after repeated enterprises pr ses of this description they acquire a taste tir robbery and ri violence olence they recruit hole compan companies iee which get more aad more numerous and it at length they form regular colonies of brigand bees ees there is one variety of bees the which lives exclusively clu clua ively upon plunder that drinking in excess ex ess frequently leads to crime is as truo true amongst bees as among human cr communities for it has been found that tha thievish be bees can be produced artificially by giving working bees a mixture of honey and brand d to drink the bees soon too soo soon acquire a tase for this beverage h has the sanie same disastrous effects them as upon human beings they be come ill III di i posed and irritable an ana lose all desire to work and ien when they begin to feel hungry they attack and bunder gownder the well supplied li hives tires |