. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 19U(> THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. for me to hear, what a genuine pleasure it would be to "dish up" all the pretty and interesting subjects that fall in the way of a traveling bee-keeping editor. But this time 1 determined to gratify the in- clination and turned my camera upon the lone "cabbage"' that stood for Indian river, hud "stood" so well out into its waters that its roots were twice each day bathed by the flowing tides. Fort Pierce, Fla., Dec. 20, From (i/eaiiiugs in Bee Culture. KIVH-BANDED BEES. Questio
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 19U(> THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. for me to hear, what a genuine pleasure it would be to "dish up" all the pretty and interesting subjects that fall in the way of a traveling bee-keeping editor. But this time 1 determined to gratify the in- clination and turned my camera upon the lone "cabbage"' that stood for Indian river, hud "stood" so well out into its waters that its roots were twice each day bathed by the flowing tides. Fort Pierce, Fla., Dec. 20, From (i/eaiiiugs in Bee Culture. KIVH-BANDED BEES. Question.—Are Golden Italians what are called by some people five banded bees? Answer.—The worker bees from an imported queen direct from Italy show two colors on the abdomen, next to the thorax. That on each segment nearest the thorax is of a leather color, and that farthest from the thorax being of a brown- ish-black color. This gave birth to the expression, "three-banded ; As the breeding toward the yellow progressed, some individual workers were found hav- ing a very narrow stripe of yellow on the fourth segment of the abdomen, and with this stripe came the contention that the Italian was not a pure race of bees but a mongrel or thoroughbred, as the question arose regarding this fourth band thus: "If bees showing three bands are pure, what are those showing j-ellow on four?" As the breeding for the yellow continued, that on all the segments be- came wider and wider, the yellow en- croaching on the black or dark more and more all the while, until individual specimens began showing a very minute stripe on the front edge of the fifth seg- ment, which gave rise to the present term "; As this yellow on the fifth segment increased, the dark or black stripes on the first, second and third seg- ments \anished altogether; and as pro- gress continued the black finally dis- appeared on the fourth segment also, which made this individual bee
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