. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 14, 1921. THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. 167. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real name and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. Inimical Drones. [10426] Surely the Rev. E. F. Hemming is de
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 14, 1921. THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. 167. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real name and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. Inimical Drones. [10426] Surely the Rev. E. F. Hemming is determined to frighten us in some way. Last year we were all anxiety on account of a new queen disease he had discovered (which luckily did not spread far beyond Steeple Gidding). Now he raises our fears with a story about some " inimical drone " he has heard near his hives, intent on goodness knows what fell purpose. Can it be that the Rev. Hem- ming is on the verge of discovering yet another new disease—a sort of bee rabies •which changes the usual genial disposition of our drones to one of malignity ? ' Perhaps he will tell us in due course how best to deal with these inimical drones when they appear. Some decoction of laurel, maybe, or what ?—Delta S. April 7, 1921. The Experience of the Inexperienced. [10427] A new territory will be revealed to him that fights the "Isle of Wight" disease for the first time. He will soon become an adept in managing bees. Driving, dividing, queen-finding, and the like will soon become very prosaic undertakings. A crawling bee is an abomination. Language fails to describe the depressed thoughts that rise at the ap- pearance of half-a-dozen bees, each with a kink in the wing, running out of the en- trance and tumbling off the alighting board to the ground. It is a signal that all the feeding, tending, and packing has been a labour in vain. Is there a cure? If so, why don't you give it to the world in plain words? He tha
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