. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 134 THE BEITISH BEE JOUKNAL. [November 1, 1878. nineteenth day after there were scores of young Ligurians outside the hive taking their first fly. I do not think a young bee could fly the day it was hatched, but only allowing one day after hatching, the young must have been only eighteen days. Again, I had a black stock, and bought from Mr. Pettitt a Ligurian queen, caged her one day, aud twenty days after her release young bees were flying. Are bee books wrong in giving twenty-one days and several more before flying, or do they only refer
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 134 THE BEITISH BEE JOUKNAL. [November 1, 1878. nineteenth day after there were scores of young Ligurians outside the hive taking their first fly. I do not think a young bee could fly the day it was hatched, but only allowing one day after hatching, the young must have been only eighteen days. Again, I had a black stock, and bought from Mr. Pettitt a Ligurian queen, caged her one day, aud twenty days after her release young bees were flying. Are bee books wrong in giving twenty-one days and several more before flying, or do they only refer to black bees 1 if so this may account for the rapid increase in Ligurian bees.—T. G., Naniwich. [Twenty-one days is the time named as the average occupied in the development of a bee from the moment the egg is deposited. ' Langstroth,' in his invaluable book, p. 44 and following, quotes Dr. Bevan as to the times respectively occupied in the changes from the egg to the perfect insect, each of which is liable to be lengthened or shortened by changes of temperature of the hive. Averages cannot be subject to individual challenge.—Ed.] FANTASTIC COMBS. At last I send you a photograph of my fantastic combs, built outside a hive, in the outer box with which it was covered. The fillet round the box helped to heighten it so as to give ventilation all over the hive itself, which contains about 2160 cubic inches of space. The facts are simple. About four years ago I put a swarm into a box I had close. by, an oblong box (somewhat like the cheap Stan- dards), and I find the combs, seven in number, most beautifully straight (Mem. for your new Combination), running parallel to the entrance front and reaching nearly to the floor-board, black and clean. The hive is 12 inches deep, and the outer box 15 inches leaving a space of 3 inches above the hive and being much longer than the hive, space also at the back end which will account for the foreshortening of the combs in the photograph and
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