. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 838 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Dec. IS, 1904. 9 to 13 days, lively, active, young queens. This would indi- cate that the larvse selected may be from 1 to 4 days old. b. On actual observation as a queen-breeder for 5 years, aud bee-crankosity for nearly 30 years. E. Whitcomb (Nebr.)—a. They would select the young- est layed egg^s. b. The younger the egg or larva the better the queen they are able to rear from it. The value of the queen during her life, and the amount of work she is able to do, is entirely conditional on the time the bees have had to tre
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 838 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Dec. IS, 1904. 9 to 13 days, lively, active, young queens. This would indi- cate that the larvse selected may be from 1 to 4 days old. b. On actual observation as a queen-breeder for 5 years, aud bee-crankosity for nearly 30 years. E. Whitcomb (Nebr.)—a. They would select the young- est layed egg^s. b. The younger the egg or larva the better the queen they are able to rear from it. The value of the queen during her life, and the amount of work she is able to do, is entirely conditional on the time the bees have had to treat the larva. Where 30 queen cells are allowed to mature in a hive one can not expect the result to be as good as where the energies of the colony were given to 4 or Eyes of Insects—Comb-Honey Falsehoods. BY PROF. A. J. COOK. I AM asked by " Reader " to give the structure and what is known of the physiology of the eyes of insects. I doubt if the general reader of the American Bee Journal would be interested in a very minute description of these organs, but a general description will surely be read with interest by every studious bee-keeper. All imago or mature insects have compound eyes. These •consist of many, often thousands, of simple eyes. Besides these there are often one, two, or three simple eyes. The honey-bee shows three of these ocelli or simple eyes. I do not think that the difference of function of these two kinds of eyes, whether of distance or acuteness, is known. I have reason to think that the bee does not see very well anyway. That is, were the bee a person we would not pronounce it a very close observer. We would not say that it used its eyes to a very good purpose. I certainly have detected bees making some very curious mistakes, where we would think that accurate observation would have brought different results. The structure of each simple eye, whether one of the ocelli or the parts of the compound eye, is much the same, and suggests the
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