. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 11. extended alighting board reared in front (Fig. 12, see page 89) to prevent the bees being attracted out to their death by the light from the snow being reflected into the hive. Keep a watch for blue tits and mice—the former obtain food by tapping on the alighting board and attracting bees outside; the latter will eat away the entrance slides to obtain admission to the The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, *nd correspo
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 11. extended alighting board reared in front (Fig. 12, see page 89) to prevent the bees being attracted out to their death by the light from the snow being reflected into the hive. Keep a watch for blue tits and mice—the former obtain food by tapping on the alighting board and attracting bees outside; the latter will eat away the entrance slides to obtain admission to the The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, *nd correspondents are requested to write on one tide of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for vublication, but hi a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do undertake to return rejected communications. •ISLE OF WIGHT" DISEASE. [8955] Does not the whole present dis- cussion on '"Isle of Wight" disease and the proposed methods of coping with same turn on the question : " Is this disease in- fectious or merely contagious? " If it is infectious then no amount of wholesale destruction of diseased stocks can stop the plague now that it is so widespread. Like influenza amongst ourselves, it has come to stay, and the only hope of salvation lies in the discovery of partiallv or totally immune stocks or strains of bees which may survive the coming holocaust! In that case, as Mr. Mace and his followers suggest, the sooner the world is scoured for immune strains the better; such strains already exist in Australia if the informa- tion supplied to our Board of Agriculture is correct (see 1912 Report on '"Isle of Wight" Bee Disease, pp. 51 and 52, also pp. 128 and 129). As to whether any British strains have yet become strongly resistant is a question. Mr. Stapleton, who has wrestled with the disease in Cornwall since 1904, wrote hopefully some time back in the "
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