Archive image from page 20 of A key to successful bee-keeping. A key to successful bee-keeping: being a treatise on the most profitable method of managing bees, including the author's new system of artificial swarming .. CUbiodiversity1264180 Year: 1862 ( THE WOUKERS. 19 confusion, even the lazy droves are taking' wing, and, like a flood, the impetuous workers chase each other from the hive- Mounting in spiral circles high in the air, they soon return to repeat the search for the lost one, over and over again. We will return the queen, letting her go just at the entrance of the hive. How quic
Archive image from page 20 of A key to successful bee-keeping. A key to successful bee-keeping: being a treatise on the most profitable method of managing bees, including the author's new system of artificial swarming .. CUbiodiversity1264180 Year: 1862 ( THE WOUKERS. 19 confusion, even the lazy droves are taking' wing, and, like a flood, the impetuous workers chase each other from the hive- Mounting in spiral circles high in the air, they soon return to repeat the search for the lost one, over and over again. We will return the queen, letting her go just at the entrance of the hive. How quickly she darts in 1 and the bees rush back in eager haste to get inside, and know for themselves that indeed the lost one is found. Imme- diately a loud buzzing, which, once heard, can never be mistaken, is audible. It is the glad shout of the hundred sentinels at the door, with uplifted wings and eloquent words, as clearly and plainly as any man could speak it, of the ' all's well I' of the watchful guard, and the won- derful little creatures ply their busy hands, and feet, and wings, as before. Again let us remove the queen, but this time not to re- turn her. The tumult again takes place, and again sub- sides. Keep a close watch—we have a good opportunity to observe them. A single card of comb between two clear, clean panes of glass exposes both of its sides, so that we may see every bee. An hour has past. The bees have become quite composed. And see 1 there is a cluster gathering here, another there, and over on the other side one, two, or three more. The bees are destroy- ing some of their young, and dragging them from their cells ! They have selected orie cell — in the centre of each of the clusters, which cell they are enlarging, most laboriously pressing outward its hex- »' agonal sides, making it quite round. 8.—Queen in embryo. In a single day it has taken the ap- pearance of an acorn cup, now be- ginning to curve downward. Three days more and it is capped
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