. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE W T FALCONER MANFG CO VOL. VII. /V\f\Y, 1897. NO. 5. Paralysis and its Treatment. BY H. E. HILL. Regarding the cause of bee paralysis there is a diversity of opinion even among our most advanced apicultural writers. Our experience inclines us to the belief that as many ailments, widely different in character though in some respects similat, are thought to be paralysis, hence the various opinions as to its cause and treatment. The symptoms of the type most prev- alent are, old, worn out looking, trem- bling, shiny bees, mor
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE W T FALCONER MANFG CO VOL. VII. /V\f\Y, 1897. NO. 5. Paralysis and its Treatment. BY H. E. HILL. Regarding the cause of bee paralysis there is a diversity of opinion even among our most advanced apicultural writers. Our experience inclines us to the belief that as many ailments, widely different in character though in some respects similat, are thought to be paralysis, hence the various opinions as to its cause and treatment. The symptoms of the type most prev- alent are, old, worn out looking, trem- bling, shiny bees, more or less, some wholly devoid of the usual light col- ored hair upon the throax and abdo- men ; usually to be seen about the entrance and dying in great numbers upon the ground in front of the hive. Generally a colony thus effected will attack and eat quantities of larva of about the sixth or eighth day and the portions yet unconsumed may be seen here and there in the brood nest. With a prolific queen the colony may exist in a weak condition for years, or become so depopulated as to fall a prey to the moth. Though others re- port the periodical appearance and disappearance of the disease without treatment, in our experience if left to itself complete destruction is the final outcome sooner or later. In a recent number of the Austral- ian Bee Bulletin A. F. Burbank has this to say regarding his experience with the malady: "Bee paralysis must be caused by bad honey. I had some hives badly effected about two years ago and I never got lid of the pest until I extracted every drop of their honey, and in some cases had to do it twice. When the bees got new honey they were all ; This was doubt- less a case of poison honey—similar to the instances frequensly reported by bee keepers in localities where yel- low jasmine affords honey in our own country. Mr. O. 0. Poppleton, of Florida, one of America's most thorough and observing bee keepers, has for years successfully t
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