. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 79. €au§c of the Di$ea§c Known as " ; Query 880.—What is the cause of bees having diarrhea ?—Illinois. Microbes.—Emerson T. Abbott. I don't know.—J. M. Hambaugh. Dampness and poor honey.— Long confitiement and watery honey. —Dadant & Son. Long confinement or poor honey, or both.—James A. Geeen. Too long confinement in cold weather, and poor food.—E. France. I think poor food, and too great ex- tremes of temperature.—A. J. Cook. Bad food ; damp, cold, confinement; too much disturbance.—Eugene Sec
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 79. €au§c of the Di$ea§c Known as " ; Query 880.—What is the cause of bees having diarrhea ?—Illinois. Microbes.—Emerson T. Abbott. I don't know.—J. M. Hambaugh. Dampness and poor honey.— Long confitiement and watery honey. —Dadant & Son. Long confinement or poor honey, or both.—James A. Geeen. Too long confinement in cold weather, and poor food.—E. France. I think poor food, and too great ex- tremes of temperature.—A. J. Cook. Bad food ; damp, cold, confinement; too much disturbance.—Eugene Secoe. Cold or poor honey, or dampness or other things—one or all.—J. H. Larra- bee. Cold and its usual consequent damp- ness are the principal causes.—P. H. Elwood. Cold and confinement. This is the cause; other things may aggravate.—G. W. Demaree. 1. Bad food. 2. Excessive dampness. 3. Cold. 4. Long confinement to their hives.—C. H. Dibbern. Long confinement; and, as Heddon says, too much pollen and too little honey.—Will M. Barnum. Lack of sufficiently frequent flights to free the intestines of accumulations as nature requires.—G. M. Doolittle. Improper food and improper ventila- tion ; or, if put in winter confinement without flight, or disturbed.—Mrs. J. N. Heater. Conditions which impair the health of the bee. I would say unwholesome food, and an unwholesome atmosphere. —R. F. HOLTERMANN. Probably foul air. In driving bees out of an old-fashioned surplus honey-box years ago, by putting the nozzle of a smoker to an entrance hole and puffing vigorously, in a few moments the bees were soiling the honey, and had the ap- pearance of bees suffering with diarrhea. —Mrs. L. Harrison. On account of their intestines becom- ing overloaded with excreta, which they are unable to void seasonably, from lack of opportunity to fly.—R. L. Taylor. Honey-dew honey, or poor, thin honey gathered from flowers, and long confine- ment to the hive, I thin
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