. A manual of bee-keeping. Bee culture; Bees. DRONE AND BEE-TRAPS. 145. DRONE AND BEE-TRAPS. These are sometimes of considerable service in an Apiary, either to capture undesirable Drones or to clear a super of Bees. Of the former kind the Drone trap made by R. Aston, Newport, Salop, has been found very useful, and is thus described by its maker. Figure S7 represents it fixed to a Woodbury hive, â â - 7 Fig. 57. Fig. s8. but it is only necessary to alter the shape of the zinc bridge to make it fit the front of a straw skep. The trap is left on until filled, or as long as is desirable; it offer
. A manual of bee-keeping. Bee culture; Bees. DRONE AND BEE-TRAPS. 145. DRONE AND BEE-TRAPS. These are sometimes of considerable service in an Apiary, either to capture undesirable Drones or to clear a super of Bees. Of the former kind the Drone trap made by R. Aston, Newport, Salop, has been found very useful, and is thus described by its maker. Figure S7 represents it fixed to a Woodbury hive, â â - 7 Fig. 57. Fig. s8. but it is only necessary to alter the shape of the zinc bridge to make it fit the front of a straw skep. The trap is left on until filled, or as long as is desirable; it offers no hindrance to the Worker Bees, and should the Queen stray into it, she would have to stay there until released by her owner, i is a sectional view of the Drone trap ; 2 is a perforated zinc front with apertures 3-i6ths of an inch in diameter, which permits the exit of the Worker Bees only ; 3 is an opening left at back to place before a Bee-trap when fixed to a super, so as to catch its Drones ; 4 is a glass tube down which the Drones march freely into the cage, but cannot find their way back again ; 5 is a contrivance through which the Workers can pass as ordinarily, but it has a strip of wood along its centre which darkens the way and renders it less attractive than it otherwise would be to the Drones; 7 is the zinc L. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hunter, John, Hon. Secretary of the British Bee-keepers Association. London, D. Bogue
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