. British bee-keeper's guide book to the management of bees in movable-comb hives, and the use of modern bee-appliances. Illustrated. Bee culture. QUEEN-REARING. Jig queens that the rich food be given to them from the earliest moment. All the cups for the same batch should receive larvae of the same size, so that the queens may hatch about the same time. The larvae are lifted out of their cells by means of a quill shaped as in Fig. 92. The tip is carefully slipped under the larva, which is then raised, together with the food in which it floats, and deposited in a similar position at the bottom
. British bee-keeper's guide book to the management of bees in movable-comb hives, and the use of modern bee-appliances. Illustrated. Bee culture. QUEEN-REARING. Jig queens that the rich food be given to them from the earliest moment. All the cups for the same batch should receive larvae of the same size, so that the queens may hatch about the same time. The larvae are lifted out of their cells by means of a quill shaped as in Fig. 92. The tip is carefully slipped under the larva, which is then raised, together with the food in which it floats, and deposited in a similar position at the bottom of the cup to that which. Fig. 91.—Carrier for Queen-cells, a, board; b, cup fixed; c, cell. it occupied in the original cell. When the cells are provided with larvae, no time must be lost in placing them in the queen-rearing colony. The colony in which the queens are to be reared must be a strong one and have plenty of young bees. The queen should be removed twenty-four hours before the iarvse in the cups are given. Combs con- Fig. 92.—Quill for Lifting Larvae. taining young brood and eggs are removed and re- placed by those having sealed and hatching brood. The queen-cells will be ready for insertion in nuclei on the tenth day after the larvae are placed in the cups, and should it not be desired to rear another batch, one of the queen-cells may be left to hatch out while all the others are removed, thus re-queening the hive. Another plan is to get the queens reared in a hive containing a fertile queen by placing them in a com- K. 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 Cowan, T. W. (Thomas William), 1840-1926. London, Madgwick, Houlston
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