. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Drene Has No Father A drone, which is a male bee, has no father; but strange to say, he always has a grandfather (a maternal grandfather). The queen- bee lays an unfertilized egg to pro- duce a drone—a clear case of par- thenogenesis, or virgin birth. The drone-bee is not permitted by the worker-bees ever to live more than one summer season. He dies after mating with the queen, or is driven out of the city or killed by the worker-bees at the close of the honey-gathering sea- son to save boarding him. He is a happy loafer, never wor
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Drene Has No Father A drone, which is a male bee, has no father; but strange to say, he always has a grandfather (a maternal grandfather). The queen- bee lays an unfertilized egg to pro- duce a drone—a clear case of par- thenogenesis, or virgin birth. The drone-bee is not permitted by the worker-bees ever to live more than one summer season. He dies after mating with the queen, or is driven out of the city or killed by the worker-bees at the close of the honey-gathering sea- son to save boarding him. He is a happy loafer, never working, al- ways fed by others, a regular "man about town," until fall comes—and then suddenly nobody cares for father. The drones are always killed off or starved by the bees themselves after the main honey flow unless the hive is queenless or has an unmated queen. Must Fly Three Times Around the World to Collect a Pound of Honey Actual weighings have shown that it takes about 20,000 bees to bring in a pound of nectar, which will make about one-fourth as much honey. It would, therefore, take 80,000 bees to bring in enuogh nectar, when evaporated and modi- fied by bees, to equal a pound of honey. It has been estimated that it takes 80,000 more bees to evapo- rate and modify four pounds of nectar into honey. According to these figures it takes 160,000 bees to gather and prepare a pound of honey in a given period of a few hours or a WORKER The average flying distance for a bee-load may be a mile and a half. If one bee could gather enough nectar (four pounds) to make one pound of honey it would have to make 80,000 trips of one mile each or fly a distance equal to more than three times around the globe. Why Honey in Place Of Other Sweets The sweet found in flowers is not honey, but similar to sweetened water. It is called nectar. Honey is the nectar of flowers, gathered, evaporated, and modified by Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pa
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