. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Writer Mary Louise Coleman, author of Bees in the Garden & Honey in the Larder, tells, for example, of depictions of migra- tory beekeeping on walls and sar- cophagi from ancient Egypt. Horace will elaborate on the many specialized tasks performed by a colony of bees and will tell you how the creatures navigate by the sun and how unerring their homing instinct is. When you move bees, he says, you have to move them beyond a radius of three miles or they'll go right back to their old foraging site. And he'll tell you the bee has
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Writer Mary Louise Coleman, author of Bees in the Garden & Honey in the Larder, tells, for example, of depictions of migra- tory beekeeping on walls and sar- cophagi from ancient Egypt. Horace will elaborate on the many specialized tasks performed by a colony of bees and will tell you how the creatures navigate by the sun and how unerring their homing instinct is. When you move bees, he says, you have to move them beyond a radius of three miles or they'll go right back to their old foraging site. And he'll tell you the bee has no equal as a worker. "The bee doesn't age chronologi- cally," explains Bell. "It ages phy- siologically. They literally fly themselves to death. Their wings wear out. They usually collapse in the field and ; Not native to America, the honeybee is a European import. "The Indian called it the white man's fly," notes Bell. The honey company president says the migratory honeybee is becoming more and more impor- CRANBERRIES THE NATIONAL CRANBERRY MAGAZINE SEND CORRESPONDENCE TO: BOX 249 COBALT CT 06414 (203) 342-4730 Fax #: (203) 342-1977 PUBLISHER & EDITOR: BOB TAYLOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR: CAROLYN GILMORE (508) 763-5206 ADVISORS & CORRESPONDENTS MASSACHUSETTS — Irving E Oemoranville, Director. Cranberry Experiment Station. NEW JERSEY— Phillip E Marucci. Cranberry & Blueberry Specialist. Buddtown; Elizat>eth G Carpenter. Chatswonti NOVA SCOTIA — Robert A Murray. Horticulturist, Berry Crops. Research Station, Truro OREGON — Arthur Poole. Coos County Extension Agent, Coquille WASHINGTON — Azmi Y Shawa, Horticulturist and retired Director. Coastal Washington Research & Extension Unit. Long Beach WISCONSIN — Tod D Planer. Farm Management Agent. Wood County CRANBERRIES It published monthly by DIvarallled Periodi- cals. Wtllwyn Drive, Poniand CT 06480. Second class pot- tage It paid at lh« Portland, Conn. Pott Oftlca. Pri
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