. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Jan. 2, 1013. We have been through the mill pretty much in this respect in Ontario, and are coming out on the bright side of the situation. The time was when the in- spector of apiaries would be met at the gate with a shot-gun or savage dog, now the majority of bee-keepers are offended if the inspector passes their gate Avithout giving them a call. The most serious com- plaints that we receive with reference to oui' inspection work are from bee-keepers who would like to have their bees in- spected and have not as
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Jan. 2, 1013. We have been through the mill pretty much in this respect in Ontario, and are coming out on the bright side of the situation. The time was when the in- spector of apiaries would be met at the gate with a shot-gun or savage dog, now the majority of bee-keepers are offended if the inspector passes their gate Avithout giving them a call. The most serious com- plaints that we receive with reference to oui' inspection work are from bee-keepers who would like to have their bees in- spected and have not as yet been visited by our inspectors. Box-hives or im- movable comb-hives are Avith us almost a thing of the past and European f(jul brood is finishing tiie rest of them in territories, where thev still exist. There is a section can find them at home and pull down their webs. A particulaily nasty spider of the hunting kind is described in '" The Life of the Spider," just compiled from the writings of that wonderful observer^ J. H. Fabre. Its scientific name is Thomisus onustas. Fabre calls it the Crab Spider, beciiuse it walks sideways. It is of a chilly nature, not living north of the land of olivas, where its favourite and almost exclusive flower is the white-leaved rockrose. (How our own bees love the rockrose, or helianthe- mum, as the gardeners call it, and what glorious lumps of jDollen they get from it in May!) " »s," says ]\I. Fal)re, "is pas- sionately addicted to the pursuit of the. A CORNER OV TAMURA S APIARY. in our Act wliich gives the inspector authority to order the transferring of all bees into movable comb-hives and to destroy all such that are not transferred on the next visit. Wishing you all success in your struggle against the greatest enemy to all bee- keepers. MoRLEv Pettit, Provincial , Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Canada. ENEMIES OF BEES. THE spinER (Thomisus onvstas). [8627] We British bee-keepers
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