. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. where ;i colony has become queenless from some cause, or to provide a suc- cessor for the parent queen, to insure a continuance of the community afterthe queen and bees have swarmed out. When a queen cell is far enough ad- vanced in its construction, it is supplied with a worker egg or young larva,, and this, with the enlarged cell and a plenti- ful supply of "royal jelly," developes a queen. Among the enemies of bees are spi- ders, wasps, toads, lizzards, woodpeck- ers, rats, mice, bee-eaters, bears, badg- ers, and many insect-loving birds.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. where ;i colony has become queenless from some cause, or to provide a suc- cessor for the parent queen, to insure a continuance of the community afterthe queen and bees have swarmed out. When a queen cell is far enough ad- vanced in its construction, it is supplied with a worker egg or young larva,, and this, with the enlarged cell and a plenti- ful supply of "royal jelly," developes a queen. Among the enemies of bees are spi- ders, wasps, toads, lizzards, woodpeck- ers, rats, mice, bee-eaters, bears, badg- ers, and many insect-loving birds. The bravery of these little insects in defend- ing their hives ; their sagacity in times of danger; their wisdom in the order- ing and governing of their communities of from 20,000 to 50,000 bees which in- habit a hive, are all very wonderful, adding another proof to the thousands about us of the wisdom and goodness of God, wlio endows the smallest insect with marvellous powers, and makes even the bees circling over the flower corollas tell-tales of His love and kind- ness, and of His wisdom beyond the 1 lower of human hands. Freeman, Mo., July 5,1880. For the American Bee Journal. Natural Swarms—Comb Honey. w. x. CRAVEN. How and when to get naural swarms and how to succeed in obtaining honey, are questions of much importance. About the time bees begin to gather- honey in the spring or fall, I clip all my queens' wings. I then select a hive which I expect to devote to obtaining comb honey ; I call that hive A. I take all the conilis from it that are destitute of brood, and give them to other hives in exchange for combs well tilled with brood, until I get it filled with brood combs; then I put on 18 or 24 section boxes, and it is nowprepared. A strong colony of bees is the only way to obtain a large yield of box honey. By this operation the colony is so very strong in bees that they are apt to swarm be- fore the honey season is over; the queen'swings being clipped, she cannot
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