. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 12, 1917. THE BRITISH BEE JOUENAL. 219 peroxide mixture (one part in six of water) into the entrances of each hive. The heat of the hive will liberate the oxygen, and the vigour of the stocks will be noticeably increased.—A. H. Hollis. HOW BEES CARRY AND USE WATER, [9470] In giving my observations for some years on how bees carry water and after how it is used in the hive, also its relation to " Isle of Wight " disease, I should be glad to know if any of your readers have noticed the same. Bees which collect water are the ol
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 12, 1917. THE BRITISH BEE JOUENAL. 219 peroxide mixture (one part in six of water) into the entrances of each hive. The heat of the hive will liberate the oxygen, and the vigour of the stocks will be noticeably increased.—A. H. Hollis. HOW BEES CARRY AND USE WATER, [9470] In giving my observations for some years on how bees carry water and after how it is used in the hive, also its relation to " Isle of Wight " disease, I should be glad to know if any of your readers have noticed the same. Bees which collect water are the older or field bees; they carry it, I presume, in the honey stomach in the same way as nectar. Does it undergo any alteration in the progress by addition of gastric juice? The bee on entering the hive distributes its load to the younger or nurse bees. I have noticed it generally giving it to two or three of these bees, which use it, I presume, in making the chyle food. Now should the water be contaminated with "Isle of Wight" disease, or should the field bee which carries the water be suffer- ing from the same, would it not spread the disease to the nurse bees, which would transmit some of the spores in the chyle food fed to the larva?? The brood when hatched would quickly develop the disease, having taken the spores in the food during its larval stage. Has anyone found the spores of this disease in the food, either given to the larva?, or in the royal jelly? Would it not be better to add, if possible, besides a little salt, Bacterol to the water supplied to the bees? Of course, there are not nearly so many cases of this disease noted during the spring and summer months, when most of the water is taken, the autumn and winter generally taking off much the largest share of bees, but I think they have it all the same; weather and confinement to the hives have their influence on the death roll. The quantity of honey, etc., passing through the intestines, or being regurgit
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