. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE Bee-Keeping World staff Contributors : F. GREINER and ADRIAN GETAZ. Contributions to this Department are solicited from all quarters of the earth. i» GERMANY. ever we can form an idea from othei circumstances. It is of importanc* Drone Laying Queens.—Dicliel says whether we find irregularly laid eggil in Die Biene: The symptoms of a ju drone cells or in worlier cells dtt-one breeder are, "decrease in the When worker bees begin to lay egg; number of workers and the appear- after the loss of a queen they use dron ance of small drones in con
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE Bee-Keeping World staff Contributors : F. GREINER and ADRIAN GETAZ. Contributions to this Department are solicited from all quarters of the earth. i» GERMANY. ever we can form an idea from othei circumstances. It is of importanc* Drone Laying Queens.—Dicliel says whether we find irregularly laid eggil in Die Biene: The symptoms of a ju drone cells or in worlier cells dtt-one breeder are, "decrease in the When worker bees begin to lay egg; number of workers and the appear- after the loss of a queen they use dron ance of small drones in constantly in- cells ri-incipally. In the absence o creasing numbers. Looking into the drone cells it requires a longer tim. hive the brood is found irregular, the before the workers start any brood sealings convex. Some of the larvae when a queen is present the bees be are of an unhealthy appearance and h^ye normally. They prepare to rea perhaps some are dead. Eggs are scat- worker brood and clean up worke tering, a number of them found in ^ells only. The eggs, though in irregi] single cells. These characteristics do lar fashion, are theirefore found in not reveal anything about the origin of them. To cure a colony afflicted, ha\ the eggs, for they may be laid either by i„g ^ drone laving queen is simpl> a worn-out or defective queen, or by enough, for such will accept a ne^ workers when the colony has been queen after the removal of the old on without queen or means to rear one ^s easilv as any other colony. The for a long time. It has been taught till will also accept a ripe cell or rear this, that queen bees always deposit qneen themselves from young broo given. A colony with laying worker young bees can be made to start cellsj^ A dictionary of apicultural terms : one of the latest books out. Of cours* it is in German, gotten up by Dr, ( Krancher. Leipzig; Two thousand fi'* tlierein. eggs properly; i. e., securely glued to bottom of cell and standing on end, '(^ not so
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