. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. u Jmtpal, [No. 46. Vol. IV.] FEBRUARY, 1877. [Published Monthly.] (Kbitorial, Stafe, fa. FEBRUARY. The extraordinary mildness of the present season, almost without parallel in this fitful country, will doubtless be prejudicial to the welfare of our favourites, the bees, inasmuch as, while permitting them to be active on fine days as foragers, yet, there being no possibility of natural ingathering, either of honey or pollen, the suspension of breeding will con- tinue, except in a very slight degree, and wear and tear of muscle and fibr
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. u Jmtpal, [No. 46. Vol. IV.] FEBRUARY, 1877. [Published Monthly.] (Kbitorial, Stafe, fa. FEBRUARY. The extraordinary mildness of the present season, almost without parallel in this fitful country, will doubtless be prejudicial to the welfare of our favourites, the bees, inasmuch as, while permitting them to be active on fine days as foragers, yet, there being no possibility of natural ingathering, either of honey or pollen, the suspension of breeding will con- tinue, except in a very slight degree, and wear and tear of muscle and fibre will cause the gradual depopulation of colonies, to their great- injury generally, and in some instances to their utter ruin. In many localities pollen-carrying has been already noticed, offering strong evidence that time is somewhat ' out of joint;' and that flowers and trees as well as bees are influenced in a way which experience teaches will, if con- tinued, interfere greatly with their prosperity in the future, and probably be the cause of their destruction. The end of January (mid- winter) has arrived, and as yet there have here- about been no signs of winter weather except a storm of snow, which vanished in a few hours, and on two or three mornings hoary white frosts, such as are usually considered the harbingers of rain, followed by bright sunshine during the days ; and on such the bees have been as active as if it were the middle of April, and trees, shrubs, and flowers, may be said, by their forward appearance, to have fos- tered the delusion. Rain we have had most plentifully, and we may add most disagreeably, during nearly the whole of December and for the greater* part of January, so that stocks in unprotected and neglected hives have had a hard time from the continual wetting to which they have been subjected, mitigated only by the extreme mild- ness of the weather. During the tine, sunny days with which we have been favoured, we have uncovered every hive in our
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