. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 617. 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 20 or more apiarists who help to malie "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. Does tha Queen Will It ? If the queen wills the sex of her eggs, why does she will to lay a male egg, for we know she needs no male h
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 617. 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 20 or more apiarists who help to malie "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. Does tha Queen Will It ? If the queen wills the sex of her eggs, why does she will to lay a male egg, for we know she needs no male herself; neither is she inclined to accommodate other queens ? F. C. M. Answer.—Now you've got to the spot where I don't know. I don't know whether the queen wills the sex of the egg, and if she does I don't know why, and I don't know whether she knows why. " We know she needs no male herself," but I don't know that she knows that. While she may be on friendly terms with other queens, I don't know but what she is " inclined to ac- commodate other queens," provided they are her own daughters. In fact this Is one of the many subjects about which I don't know. Why Did the Queens Die ? What caused the death of my queens ? I clJDped the wings of all of them. On July 21 one colony cast a swarm, and on July 23 another colony cast a swarm. The queens died in half a minute after they came out of the hive. I was pres- ent the first time the bees came out to swarm, and I saw the queen coming out swiftly, and turning round on the ground a moment, instantly died. Both queens acted the same, and died. First I thought she had jumped down from the frame and struck her head against the hive-bottom, and split her skull. But since then I have thought it came from the sun, as it was 103-^, and the ground was warm, and no fresh air. She had no wings to vibrate so she could get some fresh air. What do you think of it? A. P. C. Answer.—I don't know what to think. I don't thin
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