. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1919 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 195 arates them virtually from their Holy Land sisters. The bright golden crescent of the Cyprians becomes darker, though still visible, and the orange color of the insect changes into pale citron: tlic workers are a trifle smaller. Xo change as to liveliness of character worth mentioning. The Syrian drones are bright-colored, with brown spots. Syrian workers fly out early and come home late, and if given the oc- casion, can gather as much honey as Cyprians or Holy Lands. Beyrout, where I had an apiary for several seasons, is
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1919 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 195 arates them virtually from their Holy Land sisters. The bright golden crescent of the Cyprians becomes darker, though still visible, and the orange color of the insect changes into pale citron: tlic workers are a trifle smaller. Xo change as to liveliness of character worth mentioning. The Syrian drones are bright-colored, with brown spots. Syrian workers fly out early and come home late, and if given the oc- casion, can gather as much honey as Cyprians or Holy Lands. Beyrout, where I had an apiary for several seasons, is not much of a bee pastur- age, as the houses and villas are usu- ally surrounded by mulberry trees, for the silk worms, excluding honey- plants, except the cactus hedges (Opuntia) which blossom in May. The queens are as prolific as Holy Land queens, moreover, they lay just a few hundred drones less than their Holy Land sisters and, but for a slight difference in color, do not, as a rule, vary. The best stock can be had between Tripoli, Syria, and Bey- rout, along the narrow strip of plain or undulated low lands between the abrupt chains of Lebanon and the sea. I am inclined to think that Syrians are not so excitable as their north- ern neighbors, because bee pests abound much more in the south, where nature has bestowed more re- sources to the breeding of the hor- nets and wasps, by way of fruit trees, and to the multiplication of the stel- lion, a thorny lizard, sometimes fat- tening on bees. The stellion is a known feature of the Orient, dark grey in color. He is met with all over the grey rocks in this land of grey- ness. Living on small insects, he may be quite blessing where grass- hoppers and flies of all kinds abound, but what a nuisance to apiaries! He has the advantage of having a gelat- inous substance around his formid- able jaws, in which the bees leave their stings before being swallowed. A captured stellion one day showed us over a dozen bee-stings on his gums an
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