. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Aug. 23, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 535 with our subject, "Influence of color," etc., I will make mention of here, as it is very interesting : Watching^ a single bee he found it would get its fill of honey in 2'2 minutes. In 3'i minutes it had made the home trip, had unloaded and returned. On the whole, it made 7U trips in seven hours. All bees observed were markt with oil color on the thorax ; every other bee a different color. Thus he was enabled to distinguish between the different bees, and to note their individual behavior to the colors
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Aug. 23, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 535 with our subject, "Influence of color," etc., I will make mention of here, as it is very interesting : Watching^ a single bee he found it would get its fill of honey in 2'2 minutes. In 3'i minutes it had made the home trip, had unloaded and returned. On the whole, it made 7U trips in seven hours. All bees observed were markt with oil color on the thorax ; every other bee a different color. Thus he was enabled to distinguish between the different bees, and to note their individual behavior to the colors and otherwise. The different bees behaved differently in many ways. Finally an average was taken. In this way the conclusions arrived at had some foundation. It would have led too far to give these experiments in detail, and for that reason I have only briefly mentioned them. It will seem to me they prove more than Prof. Gale's observations. Color exercises a pleasurable observation upon the human eye, and why not upon the eye of the bee ? Prof. G. says, in the beginning of his address, " As a rule, incon- spicuous flowers are wind-lovers, and those of gaudy tints are ; It would be reasonable to suppose that the color was given these latter flowers so as to attract the bees and insects. Of course, that does not yet prove that one color may have more attraction than another. I leave the reader to draw his conclusion.—Gleanings in Bee-Cul- ture. Ontario Co., N. Y. ? A A A A A .. The "Old Reliable" seen thru New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. HASTY, Richards, Ohio. IMPORTAlSrCE OF AN EARLY FORCE OF FIELD-BEES. Naturally I feel interested in the further report of B. J. Chrysostora, page 412. The teaching seems to be that a tremendous force of field-bees in a colony will get surplus any time of year when the weather is good. Many of us failed to find this out—perhaps mainly because we never had that force of field-bees except in what we calle
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