. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Jan. 10, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 25 colonies or so. Now, some bees will swarm without having their cells capt; where will your swarm be if you don't go there within S or 7 days? Anyhow, the queen would be gone. As I understand that you clip your queens' wings, I think it would be the safest way to have somebody right along with them. 2. Why are there always some bees fanning at the en- trance ? Some say it is for ventilation. I hardly agree with that, because my bees had a flight yesterday, and then some were fanning. If that is to cool the hive,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Jan. 10, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 25 colonies or so. Now, some bees will swarm without having their cells capt; where will your swarm be if you don't go there within S or 7 days? Anyhow, the queen would be gone. As I understand that you clip your queens' wings, I think it would be the safest way to have somebody right along with them. 2. Why are there always some bees fanning at the en- trance ? Some say it is for ventilation. I hardly agree with that, because my bees had a flight yesterday, and then some were fanning. If that is to cool the hive, what are they going to do when it is about 100 degrees in the shade ? Illinois. Answers.—1. You are right ; it is quite a job to look thru a lot of hives for queen-cells; you are also right in thinking it would be a safer plan to have some one watch- ing for swarms. But it would be a good deal of expense to have an extra hand at each apiary to watch for swarms. Of course, there's no law against others having a watcher on hand all the time. Yes, some colonies will swarm, and the swarm will be right there in the old hive (except in a few cases where it may enter another hive.) Then the thing needed is to de- stroy the extra cells, or in some way provide against a swarm issuing again. I'm not insisting that the plan is satisfactory, and as soon as I learn something better I'll drop the present plan. 2. In nearly all cases bees ventilate at the entrance for the purpose of changing the air in the hive. Even if the air was none too warm it might need changing on account of its impurity. In the case you mention it is just possible that the air in the hive was warm or foul, notwithstanding the fact that the outside air was not above SO degrees. Af- ter being confined to the hive quite a number of days, the bees may become very much excited upon the occasion of a flight, and that excitement may run up the inside tempera- ture above the desired heat. It is quite likely, however, that y
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