. Bees and honey;. Bees. FIRST LESSONS IN BEE-KEEPING 71 but as both of these races are of about the same color as the common bee, it is almost impossible to ascertain whether we have them in their purity. As the Italian worker-bees have three yellow rings on their abdomen, a fhixture with the com- mon or black bee is easily distinguished. Italianizing an Apiary To do this, a tested Italian queen (Fig. 49), should be ob- tained from some reliable dealer or breeder, and introduced. Fig. 50—Gentle Italians—The Little Girl is Pointing to the Queen. into one of the best colonies of the apiary. For
. Bees and honey;. Bees. FIRST LESSONS IN BEE-KEEPING 71 but as both of these races are of about the same color as the common bee, it is almost impossible to ascertain whether we have them in their purity. As the Italian worker-bees have three yellow rings on their abdomen, a fhixture with the com- mon or black bee is easily distinguished. Italianizing an Apiary To do this, a tested Italian queen (Fig. 49), should be ob- tained from some reliable dealer or breeder, and introduced. Fig. 50—Gentle Italians—The Little Girl is Pointing to the Queen. into one of the best colonies of the apiary. For, as the queen is the mother of the colony, to change queens is to change the whole character of the colony in a short space of time. • To Introduce a Queen successfully it will be necessary to find the queen to be super- seded, and take her away. A black queen being easily fright-. 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 Newman, Thomas Gabriel, 1833-1903. [from old catalog]; Dadant, Camille Pierre, 1851- [from old catalog] ed. Chicago, Ill. , The American bee journal
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