. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 150 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 14, 1910. overlooked ironwork have been, deeply coated with rust, and until the house itself has conjured up memories of the inhospitality meted out to departing measle microbes. But when I have gone, with mask and stiletto and cloak, to gloat over the bodies of my victims, I have found them, disinfected perhaps, but otherwise little the worse. Digging up their silken tunnels, I have found the sur- prised larvse doing their usual express journeys, travelling at will, headJight or tender foremost. I have
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 150 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 14, 1910. overlooked ironwork have been, deeply coated with rust, and until the house itself has conjured up memories of the inhospitality meted out to departing measle microbes. But when I have gone, with mask and stiletto and cloak, to gloat over the bodies of my victims, I have found them, disinfected perhaps, but otherwise little the worse. Digging up their silken tunnels, I have found the sur- prised larvse doing their usual express journeys, travelling at will, headJight or tender foremost. I have swung the censer of formalin under their nostrils, until in their tantalised and incensed state they must have called down curses on the shade of some maternal ant. x\nd I have found nothing so satisfactory as bisulphide of carbon, which gets right home to them where they live, and move, and cease to have their being. NOVELTIES FOR 1910. WATTS'S PATENT " SIMPLEX " QUEEN-CAGE. This new queen-cage was shown by the inventor, Mr. F. W. Watts, at the. Conversazione in October last, and is described by him as follows: "Its construction is quite simple. There is a lower compartment, with a movable glass lid, which ensures the safety of the captive insect. Not only is all danger obviated by the use of the ' Simplex,' but the operation of moving the queen is ren- dered quite easy and simple, although carried out by the use of one hand only. The lower portion of the cage is first pressed into the comb, after which it re- quires no further handling. The lid is then held in the palm of the hand, thus leaving the fingers quite free to take up the queen and place her in the opening of the cage, already fixed. The lid is then put in position, effectually securing the bee, whose movements can be plainly ob- served through the glass. Another ad- vantage of the cage is that the bee- keeper is able to attach it to a piece of spare honey-comb, catch a few bees, and take the
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