. The book of bee-keeping : a practical and complete manual on the proper management of bees ... Bees; Bee culture. COMBS. 19. fore five of them will occupy an inch of lineal space ; by this we can compute how many larvse the combs will accom- modate, as in each square inch of comb fifty bees can be reared. The cells are not quite horizontal, but have an upward tendency, not so perceptible in the brood as in those cells used for the storage of honey, although both are used indiscriminately, when required for either. In an ordinary size (i Sin.) straw skep, eight of these combs are usually buil
. The book of bee-keeping : a practical and complete manual on the proper management of bees ... Bees; Bee culture. COMBS. 19. fore five of them will occupy an inch of lineal space ; by this we can compute how many larvse the combs will accom- modate, as in each square inch of comb fifty bees can be reared. The cells are not quite horizontal, but have an upward tendency, not so perceptible in the brood as in those cells used for the storage of honey, although both are used indiscriminately, when required for either. In an ordinary size (i Sin.) straw skep, eight of these combs are usually built; the measurement from centre to centre of two combs is i^in. Their positions in the hive vary very much according to chance, being found built in a line with all points of the compass. There is an idea prevalent that bees always build their combs at right angles to the entrance; this will be found to be erroneous, as, in many thousands of hives that we have examined, every angle was used, and in many cases two, and even three, angles were built to in the same hive. When worker-comb is used for brood purposes, only workers are produced in the cells—that is, if the hive is in a normal condition ; but if a queen is a drone-breeder, drones will be reared in the same size cells as workers; or if a fertile worker is in the hive, the same results will happen. When worker-brood occupy the combs, each cell is capped over, after the feeding of the larvse is completed, with a mixture of pollen and wax; the appear- ance of these cells then is entirely different to either honey or drone comb; the cappings are a shade lighter than the sur- rounding comb, having a slight convexity of surface, with a dead colour. They are closely packed together, forming a solid mass of brood—called the brood-nest—in the middle of the hive, but more inclined to the bottom and front, and forming almost a sphere if a line is struck from comb to comb on its outer edge. When honey is stored in worker-cells
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