. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. 220 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES After the bees have become used to going in and out at the leguh^r place, if I make an opening at the back end of the hive, no matter if it be as large as the front entrance, that back opening will never be used as an entrance. One would think that 3'oung' bees taking their first play-spell would be as likely to use the back as the front opening; but when I have had ventilating openings at the backs of the hives I do not remem- ber to have seen bees playing at the back. Perhaps the noise of the regular traffic in front attract
. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. 220 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES After the bees have become used to going in and out at the leguh^r place, if I make an opening at the back end of the hive, no matter if it be as large as the front entrance, that back opening will never be used as an entrance. One would think that 3'oung' bees taking their first play-spell would be as likely to use the back as the front opening; but when I have had ventilating openings at the backs of the hives I do not remem- ber to have seen bees playing at the back. Perhaps the noise of the regular traffic in front attracts them Fig. 75—Eohher-Cloth. LOSING THE ROBBERS. I make it a rule to stop operations usually when robbers are very bad, but sometimes it seems necessary to fight it out. I have sometimes taken advantage of the plan of making- cross bees or lobbers lose themselves or, rather, lose the object they are after by rapidly changing the base of operation. One day at the Wilson apiary I had taken off some wide frames of sections and wanted to take them from the place where they were piled up, so as to put them on the wagon. The robbers were so fierce and persistent that it seemed impossible to open. 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 Miller, C. C. (Charles C. ), 1831-1920. Medina, Ohio : A. I. Root Co.
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