. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 49. Bees Moviiii Eis-CarnHtalians. Wiitten for the American Bee Journal BY EMEKSON T. ABBOTT, President of the North American Bee-Keep- ers' Association. Willie Atchley has a long article on this subject in Gleanings, in which he claims that bees never move eggs. The editor says he would like to hear from the queen-breeders, especially Doolittle. Now, I am not a queen-breeder, neither is my name Doolittle, but I think I have positive proof that bees have moved eggs. I am not prepared to say that they make a business of it, but th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 49. Bees Moviiii Eis-CarnHtalians. Wiitten for the American Bee Journal BY EMEKSON T. ABBOTT, President of the North American Bee-Keep- ers' Association. Willie Atchley has a long article on this subject in Gleanings, in which he claims that bees never move eggs. The editor says he would like to hear from the queen-breeders, especially Doolittle. Now, I am not a queen-breeder, neither is my name Doolittle, but I think I have positive proof that bees have moved eggs. I am not prepared to say that they make a business of it, but the presumption is that what they have done 07ice,'they can and will do again. Several years ago in Dutchess county, N. Y., I obtained a lot of black bees in the fall from farmers who wanted the honey, but intended to kill the bees. I put these bees on foundation, and fed them enough sugar syrup to take them through the winter. As they were all black bees, I introduced Italian queens as soon as I could. The black queen of one of these colonies was killed in some way in making the transfer; and, as soon as they began to draw out the foundation, I saw that they had no queen, and were building queen-cells. There was not an egg of any kind to be found in the hive. Happening about that time to be in the apiary of a near neighbor who had Italians, I saw one of his weak colonies come out of the hive and leave for the woods. I went to the hive and found a number of small, white, new combs, but no honey. On examining these combs closely, I found that two or three of them were full of eggs. To try an ex- periment I took two of these combs home and put them in the outside frames of the hive that contained the bees which had neither queen, brood nor eggs. In three or four days I took the combs out to examine them, and saw that every G^^ was removed from the cells. On further examination I found a lot of eggs in the center of the hive, and a cluster of bees around them. I also found a queen-c
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