. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 44 TEE AMERICA!^ BEE-KEEPER. March. out. The development of these eggs will show that workers and queens may he produced from drone eggs. Another: Remove from a drone comb all larvse and replace with just-hatched larvae from a worker comb, and give the one thus pre- pared to a colony under the same con- ditions as before. You will see, then, queens and drones reared from impreg- nated worker eggs, even after they have hatched C. THEII^MANN. Dzierzon still holds to his theory and says Dickel is wrong. Though I have been convinced since 1883 t
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 44 TEE AMERICA!^ BEE-KEEPER. March. out. The development of these eggs will show that workers and queens may he produced from drone eggs. Another: Remove from a drone comb all larvse and replace with just-hatched larvae from a worker comb, and give the one thus pre- pared to a colony under the same con- ditions as before. You will see, then, queens and drones reared from impreg- nated worker eggs, even after they have hatched C. THEII^MANN. Dzierzon still holds to his theory and says Dickel is wrong. Though I have been convinced since 1883 that bees can and will rear drones from what are known as worker eggs, laid by a normal queen, and during a good flow of honey I can easily cause them to do so at my pleas- ure—with any swarm. I was first led into the secret of this in July, 1883, when I hived a swarm of full-blooded Cvi)rians, many workers of which returned to the parent colony, leaving the swarm too weak for the production of comb honey, which was my aim at that time. The next day I united with them a second swarm, but all my efforts to prevent them from waging war upon each other were in vain, and they decamped for parts un- known, while I was engaged in caring for other swanus. The following morning I found the empty hives with two nice pieces of comb about as large as my hand—all worker cells—one of which was stocked with eggs on both sides, as far as the comb was sufficiently drawn out. Soon after I had completed my examination another swarm came out, and was hived upon these frames with the .starters of comb that had been deserted the day pre- vious, which they accepted, and went to work with a vigor. About a week later I examined them an found the frames filled with drone comb, except the two ])atches referred to above. The one con- taining the eggs now had three queen cells and about 25 drone and 200 to 300 worker pupae, all capped. The drones were all in enlarged worker cells, not one of which ha
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