. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. THE DRONE. have taken enough, return home, and gorge themselves with honey.'' "The drone," says quaint old Butler (1609) "is a gross, stingless bee, that spendeth his time in gluttony and idleness. For howsoever he brave it with his round velvet cap, his side gown, his full paunch, and his loud voice, yet is he but an idle companion, living by the sweat of others' brows. He worketh not at all; either at home or abroad, and yet spendeth as much as two laborers: you shall never find his maw without a drop of the purest nectar. In the
. Langstroth on the hive & honey bee. Bees. THE DRONE. have taken enough, return home, and gorge themselves with honey.'' "The drone," says quaint old Butler (1609) "is a gross, stingless bee, that spendeth his time in gluttony and idleness. For howsoever he brave it with his round velvet cap, his side gown, his full paunch, and his loud voice, yet is he but an idle companion, living by the sweat of others' brows. He worketh not at all; either at home or abroad, and yet spendeth as much as two laborers: you shall never find his maw without a drop of the purest nectar. In the heat of the day he flieth abroad, aloft and about, and that with no small noise, as though he would do some great act; but it is only for his pleasure, and to get him a stomach, and then returns he'presently to his ; 191. The bee-keepers in Aristotle's time were in the habit of destroying the excess of drones. They ex- cluded them from the h i V e—when taking their accustomed airing —by contracting the entrances with a kind of basket work. Butler recommends a similar trap, which he calls a "; One of the modem inventions to destroy them is Alley's drone-trap* improved by J. A. Batchelder; but it is much better to save the bees the labor and expense of rearing such a host of useless consumers. This can readily be done, when we have the control of the combs; for, by removing the drone- comb, and supplying its place with worker-cells, the over- production of drones may be easily prevented. Those who object to this, as interfering with nature, should remember that the bee is not in a state of nature; and that the same objection might, with equal force, be urged against killing off. Pig. 40. ALLEY'S DEONE-TEAP. * The perforated zinc, used in drone-traps, which we think was in- vented by Collin, ("Guide," p. 3, Paris, 1865), is so cut, that neither queen nor drone but only the worker bee can pass through its Please note that thes
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