. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 140 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. the failure on the part of the workers to supply all the eggs with the needed nourishment may be the cause of their failure to hatch. But that would leave unanswered the question as to why the workers thus discriminate. A satisfactory way to deal with the case is to break up the colony, distribut- ing the combs and bees among weaklings that may need them. If you do not want to break up the colony, perhaps there is no better way than to drop into the brood-nest a young queen, just hatched. If you have no such young queen, you
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 140 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. the failure on the part of the workers to supply all the eggs with the needed nourishment may be the cause of their failure to hatch. But that would leave unanswered the question as to why the workers thus discriminate. A satisfactory way to deal with the case is to break up the colony, distribut- ing the combs and bees among weaklings that may need them. If you do not want to break up the colony, perhaps there is no better way than to drop into the brood-nest a young queen, just hatched. If you have no such young queen, you can give them a comb of young brood and eggs, and they may rear a queen ; but you can hasten mat- ters by giving them a just-hatched queen as soon as you can, or a sealed queen- cell. Queen and Worker in the Same Cell. I send you two bees—a queen and a worker—both of which were taken from the same cell yesterday (July 17th). Both were dead when the cell was opened. Why should one develop a queen and the other a worker ? Cobham, Pa. D. L. McKean. Answer.—If you rear many queens you will quite frequently find a queen- cell containing nothing but a dead worker. The bees seem Inclined to play practical jokes on one another, and, like most practical jokes, they result rather seriously. A queen hatch&s out of a cell leaving the usual cap attached by a kind of hinge ; a worker enters the cell, probably to clean it out; the cap becomes closed, either by accident or de- sign, and the cell is again sealed up. But a worker and queen both in the same cell is something unusual, and we can only make a guess at the way in which it occurred. Our guess is this : The queen came to maturity, gnawed the cell open, was then allowed to starve to death in the cell, and afterward a worker entered and was sealed up with the dead queen. Possibly some one can give a better explanation. Shade or Sunshine for Bees. I have an equal number of colonies in two places. In one place they are in a shady
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