^iMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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WMl AlMffie Queen ? 



Query 90-4.— In Julj-, 1892, 1 examined one 

 of my nuclei, expecting- to find a young- laying 

 queen. On finding- no eggs, I hunted out the 

 queen; she showed signs of being impreg- 

 nated, by a caudal appendage which any bee- 

 master- would pronounce the organs of the 

 male. I had seen her before, when she did 

 not have the attaclimont. I let her alone 

 about a week and found no eggs ; she still had 

 the appendage. 1 removed it from her -with 

 the point of a knife and a dry plug came away 

 easily. I examined again in a week and found 

 no eggs, but the quei'u was smart and lively. 

 I then killed her. What do you say ailed her ? 

 —Kansas. 



I don't say. — A. B. Mason. 

 I do not know.— M. Mahin. 

 I give it up. — J. H. Lakkabee. 

 I don't know. — Eugene Secor. 

 I don't know. — James A. Gkeen. 

 I don't know. — J. M. Hambattgh. 

 Defornaed queen. — S. I. Freebokn. 

 I do not know. — G. M. Doolittle. 

 I do not know. — Emerson T. Abbott. 



Imperfect fertilization. -^ P. H. El- 

 wood. 



I don't know. 'What was it ? — C. C. 

 Miller. 



Every answer will be a guess. — Da- 

 DANT & Son. 



I have never known of such a case. — 

 Jas. a. Stone. 



I give it up. Ask me something real 

 easy. — C. H. Dibbern. 



I don't see that it makes any difiference 

 what ailed her.— Mrs. L. Harbison. 



That is not an infrequent occurrence. 

 I suppose proper fertilization is pre- 

 vented by some malformation. — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



If I could have that queen on my dis- 

 secting board, I could tell you what the 

 trouble was ; as it is, I don't know. — H. 

 D. Cutting. 



Imperfect development, no doubt; 

 perhaps caused by rough or careless 

 handling of the queen-cell from which 

 she came. — Mrs. J. ,N. Heater. 



Some organic defect, or abnormal con- 

 dition in the queen ; or it may have been 

 in the copulating organs of the drone. I 

 have frequently met such cases. — J. P. 

 H. Brown. 



Possibly the queen had mated with a 

 drone from a laying worker or virgin 

 queen. We have yet to see the evidence 

 that such drones are of any value. — G. 

 L. Tinker. 



Here is a question for the "doctors" 

 to disagree upon — if it be worth their 

 while. Things do not always prove to 

 be what they seem ; but the world wags 

 on. — Will M. BarnuxM. 



It is impossible to say. She was prob- 

 ably in some way Imperfect. All other 

 females are occasionally ailing, and im- 

 potent. Why should not the same be 

 true of the female bee '? — A. J. Cook. 



It sometimes happens that th§ queen 

 meets the drone, bringing home the 

 male organ, which for some reason does 

 not cause impregnation. Why, I know 

 not. Who can inform us? — J. E. Pond. 



I don't know what ailed her. I would 

 have kept her another week longer than 

 you did. I think she v/ould have been 

 all right, if you had given her a little 

 more time to regain her natural condi- 

 tions. — E. France. 



I would rather believe she failed to 

 become impregnated — though she really 

 met a drone. It would be a wonderful 

 exception to the rule in animal economy, 

 if the queen honey-bee 7iever failed, 

 when she met the male. If you had 

 kept her long enough, I think she would 

 have finally laid drone-eggs only, if she 

 was not injured. — G. W. Demaree. 



We often have queens that never lay 

 after being mated. I have taken away 

 these appendages, and the queens lay O. 

 K. ; and probably your queen would 

 have begun to lay if more time had been 

 given her. But the mating must have 

 been imperfect, and the fault was likely 

 all with the queen. She was weak, and 

 not a well-developed one. — Mrs. Jennie 

 Atchley. 



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