. The honey bee. Bees. Fig. 49. Queen Fig. 50. Worker Fig. 51. Drone THE QUEEN With a colony in normal condition, the queen, a fully developed female, lays all the eggs for the maintenance and increase of the colony. Under favorable conditions, she has been knovs^n to lay 3,000 eggs per day at the height of the season, equalling her ov^n weight, which seems almost incredible to many people. The production of the apiary, and hence the profits realized, â depend largely on the energy of this main spring of the colony. It, therefore, behooves the apiarist to bend every effort to secure this "
. The honey bee. Bees. Fig. 49. Queen Fig. 50. Worker Fig. 51. Drone THE QUEEN With a colony in normal condition, the queen, a fully developed female, lays all the eggs for the maintenance and increase of the colony. Under favorable conditions, she has been knovs^n to lay 3,000 eggs per day at the height of the season, equalling her ov^n weight, which seems almost incredible to many people. The production of the apiary, and hence the profits realized, â depend largely on the energy of this main spring of the colony. It, therefore, behooves the apiarist to bend every effort to secure this " sine qua non " to the highest success. The honey producer knows there is great variation in the yield of individual colonies, and should the indifferent ones be made as efficient as the best, his profits would be largely increased. All queens should be bred from the very best stock obtainable, and mated to an equally good strain of drones. To maintain the requisite vigor and lessen the chances of supersedure, no queen over two years. Fig. 52. Egg of a, queen bee highly magnified. 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 perfectly resemble the original Wright, Wheeler Dennison. [Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, printers
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