. Gleanings in bee culture . trance or on tlie ground, the ball islikely to be found on the floor-board. Ball-ing of queens is very rare when coloniesare not manipulated and may be due to badweather, or the abrupt stoppage of a honeyflow, and is confined, as far as we know, tothe black race of Young bees learning to fly at 1 p. m. They mark their location, facing the hives, and widen their flight radius as may be observed by the photo. View of cokiny entrance during a honey flow. The heavily laden bees, some carrying pollen, are alighting slowly at the entrance. When we see (11) drones
. Gleanings in bee culture . trance or on tlie ground, the ball islikely to be found on the floor-board. Ball-ing of queens is very rare when coloniesare not manipulated and may be due to badweather, or the abrupt stoppage of a honeyflow, and is confined, as far as we know, tothe black race of Young bees learning to fly at 1 p. m. They mark their location, facing the hives, and widen their flight radius as may be observed by the photo. View of cokiny entrance during a honey flow. The heavily laden bees, some carrying pollen, are alighting slowly at the entrance. When we see (11) drones flying for thefirst time in spring, we know that almostany day thereafter virgin queens are li-able to emerge. This is a valuable obser-vation, as it is an indication that treat-ment for swarming is in order. We mustall know that (12) expulsion of drones indi-cates that the honey flow is over. Whenwe notice, however, that some colonies tol-erate drones several weeks after most colo-nies have expelled their male inhabitants,we know that we have colonies that areeither (13) supersedure ones, or that theyare queenless, laying-worker or drone-layingcolonies. Dead queens before colony en-trances may be attributed to supersedure,if she be a worn-out queen; to a balledqueen when she shows the effect
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