. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BvnsH THE % -^Aii^g. Communications to the Editor to be addressed < Stban<}eways' Printing Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, ' [No. 251. Vol. XV.] APRIL 14, 1887. [Published Weekly.] (Atonal, faints, $t. THE AGE OF WORKER-BEES. While there are many points in the physiology of the honey bee waiting to be determined by the painstaking efforts of the curious searchers after knowledge, one of the questions which for many ages puzzled the minds and baffled the researches of philosophers and students has for many years received a
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BvnsH THE % -^Aii^g. Communications to the Editor to be addressed < Stban<}eways' Printing Office, Tower Street, St. Martin's Lane, ' [No. 251. Vol. XV.] APRIL 14, 1887. [Published Weekly.] (Atonal, faints, $t. THE AGE OF WORKER-BEES. While there are many points in the physiology of the honey bee waiting to be determined by the painstaking efforts of the curious searchers after knowledge, one of the questions which for many ages puzzled the minds and baffled the researches of philosophers and students has for many years received a satisfactory solution. We refer to the once-vexed question of the longevity of worker- bees. In a very early number of the British See Journal (Vol. I., p. 46), in reply to a question respecting the age of the worker-bee, the Editor was able, with a full degree of authoritativeness, to give the fol- lowing reply:â ' The introduction of a Ligurian queen to a full stock of black bees proves that the life of bees in summer is very short. As it may be presumed that the black queen continued to deposit eggs up to the time of her removal from the hive, it must be evident that black bees will continue to hatch out until the expiration of the next twenty-one days at least. From that period, and not until then, will it be possible for any young Ligurians to emerge, but after that date the blacks will die, and the Ligurians increase so rapidly that in a few weeks the hive will be almost entirely populated with the latter. We think we may safely say, if the exchange of queens is effected during the height of the breeding season, that three months after the birth of the first Ligurian bee not a single black worker will be found in the hive.' But we believe it would be interesting,âat all events to beginners in bee-keeping,âto trace back and recapitulate the origin and circumstances by which our present knowledge on this question has been attained, and to note the continuous steps which
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