. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE ffiMERICffiP* BE® J©^KKMI,. 149 Heat and Cold Endurable by ll) exceed that degree, even when the mercury is indicating 134° Fahr. outside of the liive. XHE : ARTHUR XOI>l>. Frequent PUgbts for Itees.—B. F. Barb, Joetta, Ills., on Feb. 33, 1888, writes : Bees are wintering well so far, especially those that have plenty of stores. They have had a good flight every month this winter, and this month they have had more than one. 1. Why is it, that apart of my bees, when they come out on a warm day for a flight, will pull and fuss over each o
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE ffiMERICffiP* BE® J©^KKMI,. 149 Heat and Cold Endurable by ll) exceed that degree, even when the mercury is indicating 134° Fahr. outside of the liive. XHE : ARTHUR XOI>l>. Frequent PUgbts for Itees.—B. F. Barb, Joetta, Ills., on Feb. 33, 1888, writes : Bees are wintering well so far, especially those that have plenty of stores. They have had a good flight every month this winter, and this month they have had more than one. 1. Why is it, that apart of my bees, when they come out on a warm day for a flight, will pull and fuss over each other as if tliey were fighting ? 1 have .seen them doing so in the summer time, but I thought tliat they were fixing up the young bees. 2. Do bees act the same in winter as in the summer, when they are qneenless ? 3. What time in the spring does the queen generally begin to lay eggs, in this locality, on the summer stands ? 4. It a colony becomes qneenless in the winter, should 1 give them some of the first eggs that are laid in the spring ? By request, Mr. N. W. McLain answers as follows: 1. Evidently the bees were trying to rob each other ; the bottom-boards should be cleansed, and the entrances contracted. 3. The loss of the queen in winter has commonly a more demoralizing eifect on the colony than in summer. The chance for repairing the loss is the measure of the apprehension and disquietude manifested. 3. That depends upon the season, the strength of the colony, and the race of bees. Under the conditions you mention, I should say very early in the spring. Cau- casians begin breeding later than Italians, Syrians, etc., but they breed rapidly after beginning. 4. My practice would be to use the bees from qneenless colonies in strengthening the weaker colonies in the apiary, in the early part of the season. Two strong colo- nies are more efficient for any purpose than three weak ones. The death of this prominent apiarist was noted on page 115, and a further biographi- cal
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