Archive image from page 182 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( BENEFIT OF THE TIN ENTRANCES. 157 perforated with a hole at the bottom, sufficiently large to admit of one bee coming out at a tim
Archive image from page 182 of Bees their natural history and. Bees: their natural history and general management: comprising a full and experimental examination of the various systems of native and foreign apiarians; with an analytical exposition of the errors of the theory of Huber; containing, also, the latest discoveries & improvements in every department of the apiary, with a description of the most approved hives now in use CUbiodiversity1178150 Year: 1842 ( BENEFIT OF THE TIN ENTRANCES. 157 perforated with a hole at the bottom, sufficiently large to admit of one bee coming out at a time. In the spring and summer the sliders are taken away altogether, and are after- wards applied as the circumstances may require. The trea- surer of the British Apiarian Society, of which we were the founder, had a most beautiful apiary at his seat in the vicinity of Maidenhead, and being there on a visit in the month of September, we witnessed one of the most extraordinary circumstances which ever came under our experience. The apiary consisted of twenty-eight populous stocks, all in the hives of our invention; and as if the hour and the day had been agreed upon by the whole community, a regular attack was made upon every hive, and with a fury, as if the direct extermination of the entire apiary were their object. The ground before the hives was covered with the slain, and had the battle continued for two or three hours longer, the ruin of many of the hives would have been the consequence. Fortunately however, every hive was provided with a tin entrance, and we immediately let down one of the perforated sliders, and that which had the contracted entrance by which only one bee could come out at a time; the attacking bees thus disappointed of forcing their way into the hives, and the inmates being well able to defend the entrance from its limited space, gradually relinquished the contest, and in about an hour afterwards the whole apiary was at rest. It was to the tin entrances t
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