. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. SOLAR WAX The Editors do not hold themselves responsible lor the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, *nd correspondents are requested to write on one tide of the paper only and give their real names end addresses, not necessarily for publication, but M a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. THE QUEEN AS ARCHITECT. [9020] To get baits for the section- rack I put a home-made
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. SOLAR WAX The Editors do not hold themselves responsible lor the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, *nd correspondents are requested to write on one tide of the paper only and give their real names end addresses, not necessarily for publication, but M a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. THE QUEEN AS ARCHITECT. [9020] To get baits for the section- rack I put a home-made frame of six sections in the brood-nest. The slots in the guard were made too wide and the cells on the comb facing them have been drawn out and filled with drone grubs in worker foundation. It is a very common experience, but does it not make us wonder whether we know all about the queen's and the bees' control of sex? The queen commonly lays in new cells when they are scarcely half built, and one would think that in such a case she would go over a worker comb and fill it automatically with worker eggs. It would seem that in the case I have described, when she came to a part of the comb that was farther away from the next comb than tbe rest, she immediately altered her eggs from worker to drone, as though she knew that here was a place where drone grubs could be reared. The frame of sections was put in at the back of the last frame on April 19th, and the sealed drone-brood found on May 3rd. so that it is not certain that the cells were not drawn out before the eggs were laid. It would be interesting to settle this point by an experiment in an observatory hive or by taking more careful note.—G. G. Desmond, Sheeps- combe. Glos. BEES IX THE SOUDAN AND IN MADEIRA. [9021] Mr. G. Walter Grabham, , geologist to the Government of the Sudan, who has recently been explor- ing some hundreds of miles across the desert between Khartoum and the town of Gallabat, on the Abyssin
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