. Beginner's bee book. Bees. BREEDING BETTER BEES 129 not be permitted to finish the cells, but they are taken away and placed in the middle of another hive which occupies two stories, with the queen in the lower story and an excluder between to. Fig. 16.—The queen excluder prevents the queen from passing into the super. The workers being smaller readily pass through the openings. keep her from going above and destroying the cells which are placed in the upper story (Fig. 16). The first colony is then given another lot of cells to start. Only strong colonies should be used for cell starting or
. Beginner's bee book. Bees. BREEDING BETTER BEES 129 not be permitted to finish the cells, but they are taken away and placed in the middle of another hive which occupies two stories, with the queen in the lower story and an excluder between to. Fig. 16.—The queen excluder prevents the queen from passing into the super. The workers being smaller readily pass through the openings. keep her from going above and destroying the cells which are placed in the upper story (Fig. 16). The first colony is then given another lot of cells to start. Only strong colonies should be used for cell starting or finishing, since the best queens are not produced in small colonies. Latek Treatment.—A^Tiile the worker bees require twenty-one days for development. 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 Pellett, Frank Chapman, 1879-1951. London, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company
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