. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 298 AMERICAN BEE answered by Marengo, III. In this department will be answered those questions needing immediate attention, and such as are not of sufficient special interest to require replies from the UO or more apiarists who help to make "Queries and Replies" so interesting' on another page. In the main, it will contain questions and answers upon mat- ters that particularly interest beginners.—Ed. Are All 3-Banded Bees Italians ? Are all bees Italians that show three dis- tinct yellow bands ? My reasons for asking are these : I
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 298 AMERICAN BEE answered by Marengo, III. In this department will be answered those questions needing immediate attention, and such as are not of sufficient special interest to require replies from the UO or more apiarists who help to make "Queries and Replies" so interesting' on another page. In the main, it will contain questions and answers upon mat- ters that particularly interest beginners.—Ed. Are All 3-Banded Bees Italians ? Are all bees Italians that show three dis- tinct yellow bands ? My reasons for asking are these : I got a swarm from the woods from which I reared n colonies, and all had three yellow bands, the bees being a dark leather in color. Last fall I got two Italian queens from a breeder in Kentucky, and the bees from these are a very little lighter than the ones I got from the woods. I enclose one of the latter, thinking you might tell whether it was a black or Italian. All our wild bees here plainly show the thee bands. Langlois, Oreg. P. M. L. AxswER.—If all the bees of a colony have three yellow bands, that's considered proof of purity. In the first cross between blacks and hybrids, you will have some with three yellow bands and some with none. It is not so easy to judge from a dead bee, but I should not call the specimen sent a pure Italian. As nearly as I can tell, the edge of the bands is yellow, but the whole band should be yellow. Look at the living bees, and if all the bees have three bands that are yellow their whole width, then call them Italian. Why Do Bees Rear Several Cells ? Why do bees rear several queen-cells, and as soon as the first one hatches, the bees or queen destroys the balance of cells imme- diately ? That is the general rule taught, I believe, with a few exceptions, although contrary to my short experience, as I have given queenless colonies a frame of brood and in three or four day's after they had started queen-cells I gave them a young virgin queen,
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