Note 8 — Chapter V

Mr. Purchas, in his "Theatre of Political Flying Insects," published in 1657—says, "it is manifest that the Honey Bees are but yearly creatures," and when giving the sentiments of Aristotle, Pliny, Columella, Cardanus, and others, he says, "the truth is, notwithstanding these men's opinion, that Bees live but a year and a quarter at most, for those Bees that are seen in May, lusty, full, brown, smooth, well winged, will, by the end of July following, begin to wither, become lesse, look gray, and have their wings tottered, and tom, and bee all dead before the end of August."