. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Queries reaching this office not later than FIRST POST on MONDAY MORNING will, if possible, be answered in the " Journal" the fol- lowing Thursday. Those arriving later will be held over until the following week. Only SPECIALLY URGENT queries will be replied to by post if « STAMPED addressed envelope is enclosed. All queries must be accompanied by the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publica- tion, but as a guarantee of good faith. Corre- spondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only. QUEEN NOT
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Queries reaching this office not later than FIRST POST on MONDAY MORNING will, if possible, be answered in the " Journal" the fol- lowing Thursday. Those arriving later will be held over until the following week. Only SPECIALLY URGENT queries will be replied to by post if « STAMPED addressed envelope is enclosed. All queries must be accompanied by the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publica- tion, but as a guarantee of good faith. Corre- spondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only. QUEEN NOT LAYING. [9012]—Will you kindly tell me why the queen in my hive is failing to lay? I bought a rather large swarm at Whitsuntide (Italians). They came out of a skep about three Aveeks before. They were hived in a skep, and, not having my bar- frame hive quite ready, I put them on a stand, little dreaming they would swarm, which they did, but I lost them. They came out and clustered for a sliort time, and then went straight away. I have now got the skep on the top of a bar-frame hive—as per instructions in Guide Book—on 10 frames filled with full sheets of foundation. They are Avorking 8 out of the 10, and have started sealing some of the honey, but no sign of eggs or brood, either in the skep or in the bottom combs. There is a queen in the hive, as I saw her on one of the combs. I also saw her come out of the hive and fly (her head towards the hive) for about a minute, and then go back again. That was a fortnight ago, but there are no eggs up to the present. There are a fair amount of drones in the hive. Shall I have to requeen, or what must I do? I shall be very pleased if you will enlighten me.—H. G. Allaway. Reiply.—The queen had not mated and commenced, to lay when you wrote. No doubt she will be all right by the time you read this. When you saw her flying she would be marking the location of the hive preparatory to going on her marriage flight. BEES UNDER BEDROO
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