Get possession of the queen bee, and confine her by a hair or fine
silken thread by a running noose fast around her corslet.
[Illustration: _Explanation._—Be Wise in Time.]
The bees, attentive to her movements, will surround her, and go to and
fro, as if in obedience to the will of the captor of the mother bee.
A swarm can be made to pass from one hive to another at pleasure.