. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 96 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REv. to end an abundance of food is given to these larvee. This food is royal jelly at that, â which, as Dr. von Planta and Dr. Scheenfeld have proven, is more concentrated than the jelly given to the worker larvae, containing more dry substance, especially more fat. Queen larva" develop faster and stronger than worker larvtf from the very moment of their hatching ; queen larvte which are but a day old are larger than worker larva^ of the same age. From all this Mr. K. draws the conclusion that, in order to get "full-blood&q
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 96 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REv. to end an abundance of food is given to these larvee. This food is royal jelly at that, â which, as Dr. von Planta and Dr. Scheenfeld have proven, is more concentrated than the jelly given to the worker larvae, containing more dry substance, especially more fat. Queen larva" develop faster and stronger than worker larvtf from the very moment of their hatching ; queen larvte which are but a day old are larger than worker larva^ of the same age. From all this Mr. K. draws the conclusion that, in order to get "full-blood" queens, we must raise them from the egg. Now he speaks " ; He declares that he has reared a good many queens from the egg. The way he did it, is the follow- ing : A strong colony (an Italian one, I should think, as the black bees are more apt to remove eggs) is made queenless (whether all the eggs as well as the uncapped brood were also removed he does not mention, but he removed them, of course). If eggs were given to the bees directly, they would de- stroy them, therefore one has to wait till they have become quiet, i. e. for two or three days, (Mr. Doolittle would say ''for three full ;) At that time they will have con- structed more or less queen cells (empty ones) which, if built regularly, may all be used (he seems not to have used older cups nor such as had been constructed in other colonies.) To remove the eggs laid by his best queen in worker cells from the latter he tried many ways till finally he hit upon the idea to use a pin the point of whicn had been bent to a blunt angle. Now he takes a piece of comb with eggs in it (he doesn't speak of their age, but I should prefer older ones), cuts the cells off with a sharp knife just over the eggs, moves the point of the pin under the egg, lifts the latter slightly from the bot- tom of the cell, presses the point of the pm into the deepest place of the queen cell cup and then withdraws the
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