. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 12, 1898.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 187 as I thought it too early in the season to have so large a space filled with full sheets of foundation. When the season is more advanced I may be able to enlighten you a little.—Yours faithfully, Geo. Wells. WEIGHT OF WAX FROM OLD COMBS. [3265.] In reply to Mr. Weston (No. 3235, , page 155, April 21), I have weighed the wax rendered from combs taken from the body of hives at different times for some years, and the average weight of wax per comb obtained by melting in the oven over water, ha^
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 12, 1898.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 187 as I thought it too early in the season to have so large a space filled with full sheets of foundation. When the season is more advanced I may be able to enlighten you a little.—Yours faithfully, Geo. Wells. WEIGHT OF WAX FROM OLD COMBS. [3265.] In reply to Mr. Weston (No. 3235, , page 155, April 21), I have weighed the wax rendered from combs taken from the body of hives at different times for some years, and the average weight of wax per comb obtained by melting in the oven over water, ha^ been a trifle over 1|- oz., or as near as it is possible to get to, 1 lb. of wax from ten combs.—Wk, Loveday, Harlow, Essex, May 3. OUR WILD BEES. {Continued from page 167.) [3266.] Though in these papers, which appear every week or so, my endeavour is to limit myself to the wild bees likely to be taken about the time they are in print, the reader must perceive that it is not always possible to attain this object. And this is especially the case just now, when there are so many different species on the wing, and each fine day adds one or two to the number. A good deal depends, too, on the comparatively earliness or lateness of the season. An early season may bring a species of bee out a fort- night earlier than it is usually due, and in a similar way a very backward season would retard its appearance quite that period. The present spring, taken on the whole, has been a fairly normal one in this respect. Certainly everything was remarkably early in the latter part of February, but subsequent cool weather, with one or two really cold spells and severe night frosts, has righted all this, exercising a check on vegetation, in most cases necessary and beneficial, but which, if it had been delayed a few weeks, might have caused con- siderable disaster. Then again, the fact that one takes a common species here to-day in abundance is no reason why the same should occur everywhere el
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