. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. 216 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES Xo other hives were a(tacked. I somewhat expected to find the queen killed, but slie was all light next day, and no further trouble occurred, as the colony was a strong one, and, when in its right mind, capable of taking care of itself. DO KOBBED BEES JOIN THE KOBBEKS? One of the venerable traditions that is perhaps generally accepted without question is that when a colony is being robbed it is a quite coumion thing for the bees that are robbed to join. Fi(j. 73—Miller Tent-Escape. tlie robbers and help carry off the stores. I
. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. 216 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES Xo other hives were a(tacked. I somewhat expected to find the queen killed, but slie was all light next day, and no further trouble occurred, as the colony was a strong one, and, when in its right mind, capable of taking care of itself. DO KOBBED BEES JOIN THE KOBBEKS? One of the venerable traditions that is perhaps generally accepted without question is that when a colony is being robbed it is a quite coumion thing for the bees that are robbed to join. Fi(j. 73—Miller Tent-Escape. tlie robbers and help carry off the stores. I am very skeptical as to there being any truth in the tradition. I do not say such a thing never happened, but I never saw such a case, and I have seen from first to last a nundier of eases in which all the stores were emptied out of the combs by robbers, and the bees oi' the colony seemed to be all left, and generally by taking the right kind of pains I have succeeded in re-establishing such a colony. ]n such cases there was certainly no joining the robbers. I have found other cases in which the bees were entirely gone, and T could only guess what had become of them. My guess was that after being robbed of all their stores, and hav-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Miller, C. C. (Charles C. ), 1831-1920. Medina, Ohio : A. I. Root Co.
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