. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. ROBBING. 383 ROBBING. How do we avoid catching honest beesV Easy enough. The traus are put in opera- tion only when the prowling thieves are around. They are constantly on the alert, skilled as they are in the art of stealing and in finding any exposed sweets; that is to say, they are ever following one al)0ut, while the honest bees are either in the field or hive. Let us assume a case. After we have been working in the yard a few da
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. ROBBING. 383 ROBBING. How do we avoid catching honest beesV Easy enough. The traus are put in opera- tion only when the prowling thieves are around. They are constantly on the alert, skilled as they are in the art of stealing and in finding any exposed sweets; that is to say, they are ever following one al)0ut, while the honest bees are either in the field or hive. Let us assume a case. After we have been working in the yard a few days there are a few robbers that accumulate. But we do not let them continue on with their nosing into other people's business till they make work in the yard exceedingly disagreeable, and the colonies that are being worked cross. Before they become very numerous, two or three robber-traps are put into operation; and in an hour absolute peace is restored and not a prowler is in sight. cloth cones.) We ojien up the robber-trap hive, and just over the entrance of it we find a wire-cloth cone tacked up against the inside hive-front. This is made by cutting and folding a piece of wire cloth in the form of a. triangle. The large end fits over the en- trance, while tlie other end,gradually taper- ing to a small oritice (about f inch square), reaches nearly to the top of the hive, or with- in an inch of the rabbet on which the frames rest; it is then secured by double-pointed tacks as shown at the top of Fig. 1. As an additional precaution we find it desirable to have a smaller wire cone of the same con- struction under the larger one. Where theie is only one cone the bees are liable to go back out through the entrance. Other forms of cones are shown in the two low^r views of Fig. 1 on previous Fig. 2.—Outside detail of the robbei-trap. A double screen is used, and hoiioy is painted on tlie inner screen. Robbers are attracted by tlie odor of tlie honey. As iht y can not reach
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