How does the mother know that honey, in which she herself delights, is noxious to her young?
To this question our knowledge has no reply.

But honey, as we have seen, would endanger the lives of the grubs.

The bees must therefore be emptied of honey before they are fed to them.

The process must be effected without wounding the victim, for the larva must receive the latter fresh and moist; and this would be impracticable if the insect were paralysed on account of the natural resistance of the organs.

The bee must therefore be killed outright instead of being paralysed, otherwise the honey could not be removed.
Instantaneous death can be assured only by a lesion of the primordial centre of life.