Gleanings in bee culture . lls us all that we wish to know at this time. Breaking the sealing of the cover in earlyspring allows a great deal of heat to escapefrom the cluster at a time when it is neededto keep the brood warm. Birmingham, Ohio. black. The suggestion is made that our com-mon bees of Europe must be descended fromthose of Northern Africa; and Mr. Morrison,the author of the article, says that the factthat these two races of yellow bees of Africaare separated by three thousand miles ofblack bees is a conundrum worth studying. Mr. Bernard suggests that the yellow beesof Egypt could
Gleanings in bee culture . lls us all that we wish to know at this time. Breaking the sealing of the cover in earlyspring allows a great deal of heat to escapefrom the cluster at a time when it is neededto keep the brood warm. Birmingham, Ohio. black. The suggestion is made that our com-mon bees of Europe must be descended fromthose of Northern Africa; and Mr. Morrison,the author of the article, says that the factthat these two races of yellow bees of Africaare separated by three thousand miles ofblack bees is a conundrum worth studying. Mr. Bernard suggests that the yellow beesof Egypt could easily spread westward southof the desert until they reached the westernshores of Africa. But the desert was an in-superable barrier to their spreading in anortherly direction to the northern limits ofAfrica. On the other hand, the bees of Al-geria could reach Europe through the Straitof Gibraltar. The same may be said concerning the beesof Italy. A glance at a physical map of Eu-rope will show that Italy is separated from. FIG. 6. -MK. hands apiary UF SECTIONAL HIVES IN AN AllLE-OKCllAKO; THIS PLANALLOWS A THREE-FOOT ALLEY BETWEEN THE BACKS OF THE HIVES. BEES OF NORTHERN AFRICA. Why there are Two Yellow Races So Widely Separated ; International Exchange of Ideas. BY C. P. DADANT. I am in receipt of a letter from the treas-urer of the Association of Algerian Bee-keep-ers, Mr. Bernard, of Kouba, Algeria, who callsmy attention to a short article in Gleaningsfor February 15, p. 240, concerning the beesof Northern Africa. In this article mentionis made of the fact that the bees of Egyptand of Senegal are yellow, while those ofTunisia, Tripoli, Algeria, and Morocco are the rest of Europe by the highest and mostuninterrupted chain of mountains on thecontinent, almost uniformly in Africa, the heat and drouth of the des-ert, and, in Europe, the cold and snows, haveacted as limits to confine the races whichhave slowly drifted apart, in appearance aswell as in other qualit
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