. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. The Canadian Horticl'lturist. 389 BEES AND ' i\.. ML'1\I\A\' : On the question of the bees puncturing and destnjying grapes, I may state that I have been twenty-five years in the bee business, and that I can keep my bees as near my grapes as I am to these gentlemen here, which is about four feet, and they do not harm the grapes. I have read a great deal on the subject, and watched closely, and I would say that the gentleman makes in his paper one statement that contradicts his own assertion. He says the be
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. The Canadian Horticl'lturist. 389 BEES AND ' i\.. ML'1\I\A\' : On the question of the bees puncturing and destnjying grapes, I may state that I have been twenty-five years in the bee business, and that I can keep my bees as near my grapes as I am to these gentlemen here, which is about four feet, and they do not harm the grapes. I have read a great deal on the subject, and watched closely, and I would say that the gentleman makes in his paper one statement that contradicts his own assertion. He says the bees take the grapes and suck out the juices until there is nothing left but the skin, in which there is a little round hole. It is not the bees but the yellow jackets that make those punctures and cut those little round holes. I have fre- quently found that to be the case. It is well-known by those who understand this question that the yellow jackets do this. The yellow jacket makes that puncture, and then the bees, after the grape .is cracked or punctured, either by the yellow jackets, or in any other way, pitch in for their share of the juices. But that does not occur until after the skin is broken. That is what has given the gentleman the impression that the bees did it. But the fact that that little round hole was left there proves to me that the jellow jackets made it, not the bees. Mr. Wilcox : I believe that it has been well established that the honey bee cannot puncture the skin, or the little film or inner skin that surrounds the grape. This has been demonstrated in our Society by overwhelming evidence. Mr. Cutler : I will state that when the material for honey was very scarce last summer, the bees came and settled in swarms upon my raspberry bushes so thickly that a lady could not go in there and pick the fruit. I know that they punctured the cuticle of the raspberry. They did not touch my grapes, although they were within two rods of my bee hives. Mr. : I wil
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