. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 1^ THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Jan. 14, 1915. as the perforations in a queen excluder, in several cases Ixas been successful. Failures were due either to not pushing the frames close enough together, which is my own fault, or by the tintacks that were used entering the wood tooi much when pressed together hard. This latter can only be avoided by having hobnails instead of the tacks, the hobnails having flat tops and the tops having just the The wasps that are injurious to bees are the ground wasps, or those that build their nests in the disu
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 1^ THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Jan. 14, 1915. as the perforations in a queen excluder, in several cases Ixas been successful. Failures were due either to not pushing the frames close enough together, which is my own fault, or by the tintacks that were used entering the wood tooi much when pressed together hard. This latter can only be avoided by having hobnails instead of the tacks, the hobnails having flat tops and the tops having just the The wasps that are injurious to bees are the ground wasps, or those that build their nests in the disused burrow of some animal such as the mouse or mole. Of this species there are two in Scotland, the third is common in the South of England but I do not remember its ever being a trouble to the bees; it is named rufa. The two ground wasps which we have in Scotland both attack the beesj. TWO BBETLfiS OP THE FAMILY DYNASTID^, MALE AND FEMALE!, FOUND IN A HIVE, AJ^D CURIOUSLY MUTILATED COMB ATTRIBUTED TO THEM. height of the slot in an excluder. In Europe it should be easy to find these, and then the arrangement, to my mind, will be as near perfection as can be, and preferable to the excluder zinc for various and obvious reasons. I think dealers in bee appliances should stock such hobnails. I am much pleased with the reduced distance of my frames—l-5/16th inches instead of the usual. It seems to keep down drone rearing and indirectly swarm- ing. Twice the bees have altered the foundation in a section into drone cells and the queen laid in them. L. W. J. Deuss. NOTES FROM ALLAN VALE. Wasps aiul Bees.—Few people seem to know the different species of wasps, of which we liave six. All these are of the social class. I do not include the hornet. one is called V^spa vulgaris and the other Vespa Germanica. But we have also' two others. One of these builds its nest in trees; a very wasp in every way as far as I am acquainted with it, and named Vespa Bntannica. The othe
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