. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1919 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 277. Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal or direct to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, Ilv He doei not answer bee-keening questions by mall. Queen Excluder—Two or Three Eggs in One Cell On May 17 I put an extracting super with four drawn combs and four frames with foun- dation over wire excluder, on what I thought my best colony. May IS bees had taken possession of super. May 19 I found one comb, a drawn comb rilled' with eggs—two and three eggs in the same cell—yet hardly any cell skipped. Surely a fert
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1919 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 277. Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal or direct to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, Ilv He doei not answer bee-keening questions by mall. Queen Excluder—Two or Three Eggs in One Cell On May 17 I put an extracting super with four drawn combs and four frames with foun- dation over wire excluder, on what I thought my best colony. May IS bees had taken possession of super. May 19 I found one comb, a drawn comb rilled' with eggs—two and three eggs in the same cell—yet hardly any cell skipped. Surely a fertile worker at her business, and a queen- Jess colony, I thought, and the colony must be broken up. Yesterday, May 21, I examined the brood-chamber. I found it full of worker bee-brood, a drone-cell here and there, eight of the ten frames covered with bees—no queen, however, to be found. I was mystified for a while. Then I took out that comb of the ex- tracting super—and here along comes the queen, and very unconcerned, indeed. The wire excluder shows no apparent de- fect. I removed the excluder to allow the queen to go to the brood-chamber unhampered —which she did almost at once. I put the super on without excluder, thinking what the queen did once she might do again, and in her efforts to get through the excluder harm may 1. What shall I do in regard to that super? 2. Shall I forgive the queen this time? 3. Why did the oueen lay several eggs in the same cell? An answer through the American Bee Jour- nal will be appreciated. MINNESOTA. Answers.—1. A little hard to say. The question arises whether the queen was at fault or the excluder. It may be that there was some defective spot in the excluder through which the queen might pass, although close ex- amination might not discover it, in which case if you should return the super over the excluder, the queen might happen not to hit the same spot again. On the other hand, the excluder might have been perfect and the q
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