. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. The Bee-Keeping World J Staff Contributors: ^ F. GREINER, ADRIAN GETAZ I Contributions to this Department are solicited from all quarters of the FRANCE BRAZIL. NAPHTALINE. Mr. Montjovet says that a ball of naphtaline put in the smoker with the ordinary fuel will subdue the most fe- rocious bees, even the Punics. — La Revue Eclectique. (While the thought is occuring to me, I might say that if I am not mistaken Mr. Hewitt has been shipping only virgin queens, that is in the majority of cases: so the so called Punics that have come under obse
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. The Bee-Keeping World J Staff Contributors: ^ F. GREINER, ADRIAN GETAZ I Contributions to this Department are solicited from all quarters of the FRANCE BRAZIL. NAPHTALINE. Mr. Montjovet says that a ball of naphtaline put in the smoker with the ordinary fuel will subdue the most fe- rocious bees, even the Punics. — La Revue Eclectique. (While the thought is occuring to me, I might say that if I am not mistaken Mr. Hewitt has been shipping only virgin queens, that is in the majority of cases: so the so called Punics that have come under observation, are such hybrids as might be produced by what- ever drones the queens may have mated with. This may account for the result obtained.—A. G.) QUEEN OR MOTHER. A correspondent of the Apiculture somewhat inclined toward the hair- splitting business wants to know why the 'queen iSj'called jja" queen and also asks whether she is really the mother in the hive. To give more weight (?) to his argument he says that we cer- tainly consider the hen that sits on the eggs and takes care of the chicks their mother, though each egg may be from a different hen. How the argument would hold in case of a hen hatching a lot of^ducklings'seemed to have escaped his attention altogether. — L'Apiculteur. STINGLESS BEE. Mr. Blondet a French apiarist living now in Brazil, gives a description of the stingless bees of that country. The Mehpones and Trigones all live in tropical countries. A large number of the different kinds are found in Brazil. About fifty have been studied and de- scribed but there must be considerable more. The largest species are of the size of the common bee or a little larger, the smallest only the size of a small gnat. All are stingless but on the other hand, their mandibles are not only a tool to perform their work, but also a powerful weapon. An apiary estab- lished near a peice of woodland where some kinds of Trigones were very num- erous was completely destr
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