. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. STINGLESS AVORKER. ITALIAN WORKER. (Magnifled two times.) ITALIAN QUEEN. pleteaccount in 1825 (Paris). Azara,a similar explorer, also called attention to them in his travel through Paxaguay. He describes a species twice as large as Apis mellifica. Other explorers have mentioned them from time to time, but nothing of real value was elicited until lately. Tlieir study has now been taken up in earnest. White men have been inclined to di
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. STINGLESS AVORKER. ITALIAN WORKER. (Magnifled two times.) ITALIAN QUEEN. pleteaccount in 1825 (Paris). Azara,a similar explorer, also called attention to them in his travel through Paxaguay. He describes a species twice as large as Apis mellifica. Other explorers have mentioned them from time to time, but nothing of real value was elicited until lately. Tlieir study has now been taken up in earnest. White men have been inclined to dismiss them as worthless for practical purposes; but the natives of South America are certainly not of that opinion. On the contrary, they regard them as superior to the ''stinging fly" of the white man. In Southern Mexico, Central Amer- ica, and South America, they are quite fre- quently kept in a domesticated state by the native inhab- itants — that is to say, they have them in liollow logs which have been brought from the for- ests. Tliese "hives" are generally hung up by ropes around their dwell- ings to pro- tect the bees. ITALIAN QUEEN. (Mag. two times.) STINGLESS^QUEEN. trees, no effort being made to utilize the many other species whose nests are made in holes in the ground or on tree-branches. The quality of the honey and wax varies very much, some of it being quite good and some quite the opposite. The w^ax is apt to be mixed with propolis to a great extent; but at least one species inhabiting the up- per tributaries of the Orinoco, in Columbia, furnishes a desirable wax which has been frequently sold in this country. While the stingless bees cannot sting they hite and worry in away to surpass bees pos- sessed of a sting. At the Pliiladelphia field- day meeting at which a thousand bee-keep- ers were present, in June, lijOb, two colonies of a large spe- cies of sting- less bees were exhibited. A hive of them was torn apart and opened for in- spection. Di
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