REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST AND BOTANIST 195 
SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 
The mean weight of each of these two hives on September 5, when the experiment 
began, was 24} pounds; at the end of the experiment four weeks later, each had lost 
3} pounds. The mean weight of the two hives in each of which five frames with brood 
arid honey had been left, was at the beginning of the experiment 36} pounds ; the mean 
loss for each of these hives was at the end 1}? pounds. 
B.—Fruit exposed in the open air, hung from the branches of a tree in the apiary 
inclosure. In this experiment three sets of whole fruit were used, one being dipped in 
honey, one left undipped and whole, and the third punctured as before. The bees 
worked on the dipped and the punctured fruit, but were not seen to work on the undipped 
fruit, which remained perfectly whole. 
C.—Fruit exposed on shelves ina work shop adjoining the honey house. This fruit 
as in the preceding experiments, consisted of whole undipped fruit, of dipped fruit, and 
of punctured fruit. The bees worked both on the dipped and the punctured fruit ; only 
an occasional bee was noticed vainly looking for an opening on the whole undipped fruit. 
Strawberries.—-On July 2, 1902, ripe fruit of four sorts of strawberries, the Williams, 
Clyde, Bubach and Warfield, was exposed in the same positions as the other fruit, where 
it was easily accessoible to the bees :— 
(a.) Inside the bee hive ; 
(b.) On branches of trees in the apiary inclosure. 
(c.) On shelves in a workshop to which bees had access through an open window. 
Every care was taken that all the fruit used in this experiment should be perfectly 
sound. . 
(A.) Fruit exposed inside bee hives. 
The fruit was exposed in three different conditions (1) whole fruit without any 
treatment, (2) whole fruit that had been dipped in honey, (8) fruit of which cach berry 
was cut in two. 
Four colonies were selected for this experiment, all of about equal strength. 
Each of these colonies was in a hive upon which was placed a super divided in the 
middle by a partition. In each one of the four hives, the whole specimens of fruit not 
dipped in honey were placed within three empty frames tied together as a rack in the 
brood chamber; the whole specimens of fruit dipped in honey were placed in one 
compartment of the super, and the berries cut in two were placed in the other. 
The bees began to work at once upon the dipped fruit in the hive and kept 
continually on it as long as any honey could be obtained; they also clustered thickly 
on the whole berries and those cut in two, but did not appear to be getting or even try- 
ing to secure any substance from them 
_ (B, C.) The fruit exposed on the branches of trees and on the shelves in a workshop 
was not visited at all by the bees but decayed and dried up. In the hives all fruit 
decayed more quickly from the extra heat from the bees. This experiment lasted one 
week. 
Raspberries.—Four varieties were used, the Red, Purple, very light coloured and 
Black Cap. On July 29, some berries of each sort were placed in the hives in exactly 
the same positions as the strawberries. At this date there was considerable honey 
coming in, and the bees did not touch any of the raspberries. 
