. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. the middle, which are separated in front by a narrow gray line. There are numerous black hairs on the femurs and black spines along the tibia. The empodium (see 4th ed. Manual, fig. 131, C) is very slender. The specimen de- scribed is a female. AntenncB. We thus see that we have five genera of this family Asilidse, whose species are bee-destroyers : Asilus—A. Mis- souriensis; Promachus—P. bastardi; Mallophora—M. orcina and M. bom- boides : Laphria—L. thoracica, and now Erax—species unknown. In the magnificent volume by Town- end Glover, "Diptera
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. the middle, which are separated in front by a narrow gray line. There are numerous black hairs on the femurs and black spines along the tibia. The empodium (see 4th ed. Manual, fig. 131, C) is very slender. The specimen de- scribed is a female. AntenncB. We thus see that we have five genera of this family Asilidse, whose species are bee-destroyers : Asilus—A. Mis- souriensis; Promachus—P. bastardi; Mallophora—M. orcina and M. bom- boides : Laphria—L. thoracica, and now Erax—species unknown. In the magnificent volume by Town- end Glover, "Diptera of North Amer- ica," there is figured the male Erax a^stuans, which resembles the species in question somewhat, but the female also figured is very different. Queens Duplicating Themselves. A. P. MOON. In an article, about one year ago, in speaking of queen breeding, we gave our experience that we had thus far been unable to see a <aueen of the Italian race that would in every instance dupli- cate herself in " color," while we have bred from the best apiaries in the United States and both Italy and Ger- many, and firmly believe they vary as much in color as the human family. We also said in that article that we did not breed queens that would duplicate themselves every time in color. To these facts exceptions were taken by several who wrote they had queens that would duplicate themselves every time : also my old friend Alley, from Wenham, Mass., loomed up and gave the readers of the Journal what we had said, stating that he bred such queens and bred from no others, and hundreds of his customers could tes- tify to the fact of his superior blood. Upon these statements we made a proposition to any one who would send to the editor of the American Bee Journal one such queen, to raise 12 queens from, and should the 12 prove duplicates of the mother, we would send him two fine colonies of Italian bees for his queen, etc.; and for causes best known to those
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