Thomas Hill, A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees… (1579)
“ NOw some affyrme, that the clouen beasts draw no breth, in that they haue not the fan of the hart, which is y lights or lungs, for as they write, nothing without them can breath. But Aristotle writeth, that the same possible among Bees, hauing the sting (although they haue no bladder) to breath by their sting. ”
