. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. I #• ^^KeM.^ Fig. 79. cells, while on the right a closer view of the brood shows queen cells recently completed. If bad weather superveries, or there is an absence of flora through drought, or lateness of the season, then both the queen and drone-rearing stocks must be fed. Having reared good queens and secured their fertilisation, the next thing is to get them safely introduced to the colonies that they are to mother. Inattention to small details in this operation may cause the waste of much labour and time expended in the rearing of quee
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. I #• ^^KeM.^ Fig. 79. cells, while on the right a closer view of the brood shows queen cells recently completed. If bad weather superveries, or there is an absence of flora through drought, or lateness of the season, then both the queen and drone-rearing stocks must be fed. Having reared good queens and secured their fertilisation, the next thing is to get them safely introduced to the colonies that they are to mother. Inattention to small details in this operation may cause the waste of much labour and time expended in the rearing of queens, and also great loss in bee-life through the stocks which have been prepared for their reception remaining queenless and therefore broodless for varying periods. The best time to re-queen under ordinary circumstances is in the autumn, imme- diately after the supers have been removed, and not in the spring, for three. Fig. 80. Fig. 81. reasons:—(i) If it is necessary to purchase queens for the purpose, more expensive in the spring, on account of scarcity, than in the autumn, when dealers have, as a rule, a number of surplus queens on hand, which, if not cleared, will be wasted through the difficulty of keeping them through the winter. (2) The most important time for egg-laying is in the early months of the year. Queens commence to lay about the last week in January. At the earliest queens cannot be introduced. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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