. The humble-bee [microform] : its life-history and how to domesticate it with descriptions of all the British species of Bombus and Psithyrus. Bees; Apiculture; Abeilles; Abeilles; Bee culture; Bees. ^&^. 5' :i; 11 I ft I i ' 'Hi* t ,i - I â > r, v s ;i i t i i I 126 THE HUMBLE-BEK VII by fresh ones emerging : this can only happen if there is plenty of brood in all stages. I found it possible to save these perishing colonies by bringing them indoors, where I confined each colony in a box and fed it liberally with honey and also with pollen that I obtained from a honey-bees' comb and pl
. The humble-bee [microform] : its life-history and how to domesticate it with descriptions of all the British species of Bombus and Psithyrus. Bees; Apiculture; Abeilles; Abeilles; Bee culture; Bees. ^&^. 5' :i; 11 I ft I i ' 'Hi* t ,i - I â > r, v s ;i i t i i I 126 THE HUMBLE-BEK VII by fresh ones emerging : this can only happen if there is plenty of brood in all stages. I found it possible to save these perishing colonies by bringing them indoors, where I confined each colony in a box and fed it liberally with honey and also with pollen that I obtained from a honey-bees' comb and placed in a special cell. This treatment, contmued for about a fortnight in the case of the' most impoverished colonies and for about a week in those that were stronger, produced in every case a wonderful improvement. The bees appeared to take fresh heart, tending the brood with increased zeal, so that the pup^e developed into bees without any further delay ; the half-starved larvae rapidly grew to full size, span their cocoons, and later on developed into strong and vigorous workers ; the queen also recommenced laying eggs. In short prosperity returned, and the colonies when put back into their domiciles were generally able, after a few evenings' feeding, to support themselves. Moreover, it was much easier for me to look after the colonies indoors than in their respective domiciles. One poor latrcincllHs queen and her young were nursed back to life in this way from the last stage of ex- haustion. I unexpectedly found her in one of my nests when^ lifting the unoccupied ones as late as July 2;. She was in a drowsy state and had a little lump of brood, most of which proved to be dead, and one drowsy worker. I gave them a worker from another nest, and after about two weeks' treatment they 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 pe
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