. Bees and how to keep Bees. Carniolan bees are sometimes recommended on account of their rapid breed- ing in the spring, their white-capped honey-comb, and when pure, their gentle temper, but they have the serious fault of an excessive tendency to swarm. With the larger hives now in use this may not be so serious as when smaller hives were in common use. THE BEES, AND HOW THEY DEVELOP A colony of bees consists normally of one queen bee, which is the mother of the colony, from 10,000 to 75,000 or more workers, which are undeveloped females specialized for a life of labour and, in the su
. Bees and how to keep Bees. Carniolan bees are sometimes recommended on account of their rapid breed- ing in the spring, their white-capped honey-comb, and when pure, their gentle temper, but they have the serious fault of an excessive tendency to swarm. With the larger hives now in use this may not be so serious as when smaller hives were in common use. THE BEES, AND HOW THEY DEVELOP A colony of bees consists normally of one queen bee, which is the mother of the colony, from 10,000 to 75,000 or more workers, which are undeveloped females specialized for a life of labour and, in the summer, a few hundred drones or males. These three kinds of individuals may be recognized by their size and shape, (^ee fis;. 3.). Fi*".. 3.—Worker bee, queen and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gooderham, C. B. Ottawa
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