. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 350 THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. Oct. 24, The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. THE IMMUNITY OF QUEENS. [9789] The question of the immunity
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 350 THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. Oct. 24, The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. THE IMMUNITY OF QUEENS. [9789] The question of the immunity of the queen bee does not appear to re- ceive sufficient attention from your readers. Your correspondent (9781) who contributes a thoughtful letter in your issue of October 17, is an exception. It is generally stated in manuals of bee culture that the queen bee is nearly always the last to become affected with the disease, and is one of the last inmates of the hive to succumb to it. No explana- tion, or at least no satisfactory explana- tion, is ever given for this strange fact. To my mind, the reason for this apparent immunity is as follows. The queen bee is accustomed to the habit of continuously residing in the hive, which she never leaves except on exceedingly few occa- sions. She is always " nursed " and at- tended to, and she is obliged to cleanse herself inside the hive, irrespective of at- mospheric conditions. This is a very im- portant factor in the preventing of disease, as she always gets rid in a regular manner of waste products, which, if allowed to accumulate, would contribute to the production of toxmmia. The fatality of malignant dysentery appears to me to be due chiefly to this toxrcmia, which is often a consequence of a severe infection. On the other hand, the worker bees habitually cleanse themselves whilst on the wing, and if prevented from doing BO by prolonged bad weather, they fall victims to the toxic effects of accumulated waste products, irr
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