. A dictionary of practical apiculture. Bees. 30 DICTIONABY OF Sometimes, however, the bees tear down worker comb arid raise drones. They may then be destroyed while in the brood condition. Shaving their heads off is a simple method. Some- times we wish to remove them after they have emerged; in that case the drone trap is of great use. Drumming.—To rap or beat the sides of a hive for the pur- pose of alarming the bees and causing them to leave their comb and hive and pass into another receptacle. See Driving Bees and Forcing Swarms. Dummies.—A term applied by some English writers to division
. A dictionary of practical apiculture. Bees. 30 DICTIONABY OF Sometimes, however, the bees tear down worker comb arid raise drones. They may then be destroyed while in the brood condition. Shaving their heads off is a simple method. Some- times we wish to remove them after they have emerged; in that case the drone trap is of great use. Drumming.—To rap or beat the sides of a hive for the pur- pose of alarming the bees and causing them to leave their comb and hive and pass into another receptacle. See Driving Bees and Forcing Swarms. Dummies.—A term applied by some English writers to division boards. A contraction for dummy frames. Duplet.—The hive set over or under another.—Keys. Duplicate.—To set one hive over another. Dysentery.—A disease in which bees void large quantities of very soft fasces. Cause and cure are not yet fully understood. Even the nature of the disease is unknown. Some claim that diarrhoea is the proper name for the disease, and probably it is, but the advances thus far made in insect pathology do not war- rant us in coming to a decision. It may be, however, that ere long the pathological histology of the bee will be so well understood that this point will be fully decided. In the mean- time, there can be no objection to the use of the old word. Egg.—The first condition of the bee after it leaves the body of the mother. When first extruded, and before it has been exposed to the air, the egg has a soft glutinous surface which enables it to adhere to any object which it may touch. The queen places it at the bottom of the cell and it remains as shown in the figure which is considerably mag- nified. When a colony is in good order all the eggs H in the hive are laid by the queen, but it some- ffl times happens that fertile workers (q. v.) are present, and they too lay eggs. Such eggs are often, and we think not improper]}7, called worker eggs. The queen lays eggs under three different conditions, and capable of producing three different
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