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Vol 



VIII 



FEBRUARY, 1916 



Number 9 



Honeybees that Live in a Rock. 



The full page illustration shows a 

 remarkable home of honeybees in a 

 rock located in Griffith's Park about six 

 miles from Los Angeles and two miles 

 from Lindale, California. The editor 

 of "Gleanings in Bee Culture" has 

 kindly lent us this illustration, and 

 from that interesting apiarian maga- 

 zine we glean the following : 



The park contains three thousand 

 acres of mountain scenery, beautiful 

 drives and zoological gardens, but bee- 

 keepers will be interested in what is 

 perhaps the biggest bee rock in the 

 world, and in the several bee trees that 

 stand in the reservation. The rock is 

 on high ground, and while it com- 

 mands an extensive view of the sur- 

 rounding country, it is itself so per- 

 forated by holes and excavated by cav- 

 ities that it has become a fantastic ob- 

 ject, in which we may see the forms of 

 animals and the faces of men. In 

 these cavities are located colonies of 

 bees, some of which are probably enor- 

 mous in size. Apparent!}- no one has 

 ever explored the interior of the rock 

 or made any attempt to take the honey. 

 The rock is difficult of access ; but bees 

 can be seen flying in at the various 

 apertures. 



The Defenceless Menhaden. 



BY JOSEPH W. LIPPIXCOTT, BETH.AVRES, PA. 



Fifty or more Wilson terns were hov- 

 ering over a small cove in that intent 

 fashion which invariably denotes that 

 ihey have found a large school of small 

 tish. Every now and then there was 

 a splash as one of the birds darted into 

 the water, and often there were other 

 splashes and swift gleams of silver as 

 large fish, over zealous in their pursuit 

 of the small prey, broke the surface. 



I drifted down wind in a small boat 

 until in the midst of the swarm of 

 screaming terns where, several feet 

 below me, I could see a vast army of 

 small fish — young menhaden — thous- 

 ands and thousands of them not travel- 

 ling in any direction as is their wont, 

 but evidently feeding upon the infini- 

 tesimal animal organisms in the sea 

 water. 



As I watched, a few, perhaps a hun- 

 dred, shot upward disclosing a large 

 fish — a flounder — in hot pursuit. They 

 scattered along the surface the terns, 

 ignoring me, dashing down to catch 

 them. Two were carried off by the 

 terns, one b}^ the flounder It all hap- 

 pened in a moment, then once more the 

 hoard was feeding all unconcernedly. 

 And this had been going on for days, 

 perhaps, in one way or another, ever 

 since the little fish emerged from the 

 eggs. 



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