. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Sept. 7, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 567 bill instead of swallowing- it, seems to reconcile thing^s nicely, and should not be forgotten—unless disproved. Page' CONDUCTED EY /JR. C. C. AllLLER. Alarens-a, III. [The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal oflBce, or to Dr. Miller direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the Doctor to send answers by mail.—Editor.] Probably Faulty ttueens. I received an Italian queen from a queen-breeder who advertises in the American Bee Journal, about the last of July. She was successfully intro
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Sept. 7, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 567 bill instead of swallowing- it, seems to reconcile thing^s nicely, and should not be forgotten—unless disproved. Page' CONDUCTED EY /JR. C. C. AllLLER. Alarens-a, III. [The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal oflBce, or to Dr. Miller direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the Doctor to send answers by mail.—Editor.] Probably Faulty ttueens. I received an Italian queen from a queen-breeder who advertises in the American Bee Journal, about the last of July. She was successfully introduced in about two days. I noticed that she laid four or five eggs in one cell all around the edge of the bottom, but not in the center, some eggs on the side of the cell and some in the center of bottom, and sometimes one egg right on the end of another egg. Where the brood is sealed it shows to be more than half drone-brood, right among the workers in good worker- comb. My neighbor got a queen from the same breeder, at the same time, and his has all drone-brood in the worker- comb. What do you think is the trouble ? Mich. Answer.—It is to be feared that the queens are at fault, if you are sure that the queen is present in both cases. Re- port the circumstances to thf breeder, and the probability is that he will replace the queens. MIxt Bees in a Colony. I had a colony of bees come to nie June 1. being of a different kind of bees from what our general hybrids are. They are smaller and slimmer, with very narrow whitish- looking bands around the body; very gentle, and g^ood workers. About the first of July I gave Ihis and one other colony Italian queens : the one has now nice yellow Italian young bees, and the one I refer to above has young bees a little larger and not so slim as the old, with only two yel- low bands. Why are they not all yellow ? Illinois. Answer.—The dift'erence in the j'oung bees that emerge three weeks after the introduction of the new queens is caus
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