. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July, 1!)I6. 2:n American Hee Journal k '^<n^^^ From this definition it is,«asily under- stood why no two colonics have the same hive odor. The hjve odor of a queenless colony is perhaps, consider- ably diflferent from thaC^of a queen right colony. The abserfffe of a queen odor in the hive odor probably explains why the workers in a queenless colony are irritable and never work normally. All the bees — workers, queens and drones—in a colony carry the hive odor of that colony on their bodies among the hairs. This odor serves as a sign or mark by whi
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July, 1!)I6. 2:n American Hee Journal k '^<n^^^ From this definition it is,«asily under- stood why no two colonics have the same hive odor. The hjve odor of a queenless colony is perhaps, consider- ably diflferent from thaC^of a queen right colony. The abserfffe of a queen odor in the hive odor probably explains why the workers in a queenless colony are irritable and never work normally. All the bees — workers, queens and drones—in a colony carry the hive odor of that colony on their bodies among the hairs. This odor serves as a sign or mark by which all the occu- pants of a hive know one another. Since the queen and drones are aristocrats, they seem to disregard the sign that has been forced upon them, but whenever a queen enters the wrong hive, she soon realizes that she wears the wrong badge. Bees carry the hive odor wherever they go. Bees return- ing to the hives from the fields pass the guards unmolested, because they carry the proper sign, although the hive odor that they carry is fainter than when they left the hive, and it is also partially masked by the odors from the nectar and pollen carried by these bees. A nectar carrier from a strange hive is often admitted because the bees are willing to tolerate a worker carrying a foreign hive odor for the sake of getting its load of nectar. Bees kept in the open air for three days lose all the hive odor carried on their bodies, but each bee still emits its individual odor. When a colony is divided, the hive odor in each half soon changes so that after the third day one-half possesses a hive odor so different from that of the other half, that the workers from the two halves. when put together in observation cases, fight one another as though they had been separated all their lives. When bees are united we are dealing altogether with the hive odor. The mixture of two or more hive odors and more or less smoke so confuses the workers that they do not offer to attack on
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