. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. HELPfUL HINTS fOR NOVICES' By tZ3. QUEEN REARING AND INTRODUCTION. {Continued from page i6o.) By studying the illustrations in Fig. lo the beginner will be able to form some idea of the age and condition of a queen cell from outward appearances. No. i shows the thinning down of the point of the cell which is carried out by the workers a few days previous to the time the princess is due to emerge, so that she may bite through with little effort. They rarely thin down as far up the cell as in this particular specimen; gen
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. HELPfUL HINTS fOR NOVICES' By tZ3. QUEEN REARING AND INTRODUCTION. {Continued from page i6o.) By studying the illustrations in Fig. lo the beginner will be able to form some idea of the age and condition of a queen cell from outward appearances. No. i shows the thinning down of the point of the cell which is carried out by the workers a few days previous to the time the princess is due to emerge, so that she may bite through with little effort. They rarely thin down as far up the cell as in this particular specimen; generally doing it just at the tip, as in No. 2. When this thinning is done the cell is termed a ripe one, which means that the princess may come out any minute. The surfaces of queen cells are not always a'ike, some have the depressions more defined than others. In No. i they are seen very clearly; at No. 2 they are only slight, while at No. 3 they are very pronounced. This cell has just been vacated, and shows the lid remaining hinged to the cell, a peculiarity which occurs only with queen cells. To ascertain if the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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