. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 222 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. May 6, 1920. Notes on Bee Keeping. When one wants to examine a stock o'f bees, it is quite a perplexity sometimes to know where to termporarily rest a frame of comb and bees after removal from a hive; especially is this so when the hives are not made large enough to allow a space outside the division board. Should a oomb and bees be rested on the grass by the side of the hive quite a number of the younger members of the stock are left on the ground—possibly the queen. There is a comb-stand on the market to hang
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 222 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. May 6, 1920. Notes on Bee Keeping. When one wants to examine a stock o'f bees, it is quite a perplexity sometimes to know where to termporarily rest a frame of comb and bees after removal from a hive; especially is this so when the hives are not made large enough to allow a space outside the division board. Should a oomb and bees be rested on the grass by the side of the hive quite a number of the younger members of the stock are left on the ground—possibly the queen. There is a comb-stand on the market to hang on the side of the hive, but this has the same disadvantage as resting on the grass'—the queen is apt to drop on the ground. It will, therefore, be found handy to have a frame-stand to span the top of brood very serious accident; in fact, it is so at any time. A colony of bees that have lost their queen can be detected from outside as easily as from inside appearance, except when the season is late; it is then rather difficult. When a queen is lost or removed from a hive almost immediately the bees become restless, running up and down in all directions on the alighting board, fly- ing a short distance from their hive and returning again at once; they seem to be in search of something they cannot find. Should there be any young larvae or eggs in the'hive, the bees will not carry on this search for anv considerable time, but will commence making queen-cells with a view to rearing young queens, and when they have nO' chance of rearing a queen owing. chamber. Should the bees, or queen, drop off, they then fall back into the hive again. Owing to the unfavourableness of the above-mentioned stand, I designed a home-made comb-stand, made of ^-in. wood, to grip the top of brood chamber by four screw hooks, two on each^side of the stand, 1 in. from the bottom, inside, and 2 in. apart. By kind permission of the Editor, I enclose a rough sketch of the stand, with all dimensions, shoul
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