(,)UEEN-KEAKTNr;. 



35H 



quep:n-reaking. 



riG. 3.— SUPPLYING BABY NUCLEI WITH RIPE CELLS AND SUGAR SYRUP. 



iiig-box we find they can not do as well as 

 when there are two. 



6., One shonld understand that these small 

 mating nuclei are much more difficult to 

 handle than larger ones on full-sized Lang- 

 stroth frames; but the fact is, queens in 

 them are more economically mated with 

 one-third the bees and brood of the ordinary 

 two-frame full-sized Langstroth nuclens. 



6. Last but not least, give cells rather than 

 virgins to these twin nuclei. While just- 

 hatched virgins can be run into colonies 

 and nucleus hives with a single compartment 

 they can not be let loose in one of the com- 

 partments of a donble or twin nucleus with- 

 out incurring too great a percentage of loss. 

 However, when forming both sides at once 

 a young virgin can be dropped into each 

 side. 



QUEENS, HOW TO FIND. 



TO Manipulate. 



See FiiAMES, 



^ QUEErrS. The luost important person- 

 age in the hive is the queen, or mother-bee- 

 She is called the mother-bee because she is, 

 in reality, the mother of all the bees in the 

 hive. So much has already been said of 



queens, in Drones, and Queen-rearing, 

 that we presume our ABC class is already 

 pretty well acquainted with "•her majesty," 

 as she is frequently designated. 



AVhen we deprive a colony of their queen, 

 the bees set to work ;ind rnise anotlier so 



'I'lIK (.^UKEN AND IIEK KETINUE. 



long as they have any worker-larvte in the 

 hive from which to do it. This is the rule, 

 but there are some exceptions— so few, how- 

 ever, that it is safe to assume that a queen 

 of some kind is present in the hive whenever 

 they refuse to start queen-cells on larvae of 

 a proper age. 



