Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 4.—The bee on thp left is diseased. Noticethe distended abdomen and the unnatural appear-ance of the wings. The bee on the right is healthy. 648 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. A 2 1/^-year-old beekeeper. dead bees. I was called by a beekeeper inFebriTai^y who had lost half of his colonieswith the Isle-of-Wight disease. I took pho-tos of the bees, which I enclose. In illus-tration No. 1 are three combs taken fromthe dead hive, showing the exact conditionof the stock. On the right hand is a finecomb of honey, weighing approximately ()lbs. There were three like this. In
Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 4.—The bee on thp left is diseased. Noticethe distended abdomen and the unnatural appear-ance of the wings. The bee on the right is healthy. 648 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. A 2 1/^-year-old beekeeper. dead bees. I was called by a beekeeper inFebriTai^y who had lost half of his colonieswith the Isle-of-Wight disease. I took pho-tos of the bees, which I enclose. In illus-tration No. 1 are three combs taken fromthe dead hive, showing the exact conditionof the stock. On the right hand is a finecomb of honey, weighing approximately ()lbs. There were three like this. In thecenter will be noticed a small patch ofbrood, showing that the queen did her workright up to the last; and it is a peculiarfeature of the disease that the queen is thelast to die. I found her very easily, andher bodj was quite fresh, giving one theimpression that she had not been dead morethan a day. The comb on the left consistsof empty cells where many of the bees clus-tered only to die. The bees were badlyswollen, and all over the interior of thehive, and on the combs, was noticeable thepeculiar fseces emitted by the bees. The second illustration shows the floor-board. Not a live bee left
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