THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



47 



A WINTER REPORT OF THE FUNICS 



Friend Alley •: — I received Punic 

 queen from you Sept. 4, 1891, and intro- 

 duced her successfully according to your 

 method. I could not judge very well 

 of the qualities of the Punic bees last 

 fall, because the queen was received so 

 late in the season, besides I kept her 

 colony robbed of eggs for more than a 

 month rearing queens ; but with all that 

 she built up very strong, and to my very 

 great surprise, she did not stop laying 

 in November as the Italians did but 

 continued to lay to this date, January 

 24. On the loth day of January I ex- 

 amined the combs and found that she 

 had three Langstroth frames of sealed 

 brood with young bees hatching, and 

 on examining the hive again January 

 15, I found that she was laying eggs in 

 drone cells, and to-day, Jan. 24, she has 

 sealed drone brood, and the bees are 

 working as other bees work in July and 

 August. The only thing in bloom (ex- 

 cept some lawn shrubbery) is the Eu- 

 calyptus, and red willow, the latter only 

 furnishing pollen. My young Punic 

 queens had sealed brood January 15. 

 My Italians commenced layinjj January 

 20th ; at least a few of them did, as I 

 found a few eggs on that date. Will 

 report later. 



JosiAH Gregg. 



ABNORMAL BEES' 



Several cases of one-eyed bees ai-e 

 described. The single eye is crescent- 

 shaped and situated centrally, high up 

 on the epicraniuin. The bees are work- 

 ers, and other wise rrormal, except the 

 ocelli are absent. 



Several .white-eyed drones, all from a 

 single queen, are described. The ocelli 

 are also white. 



Several so called hermaphrodites, 

 some drones, and some workers, are 

 described. The combinations of drone 

 and worker characters are very varied. 

 In one case, one entire side is drone 

 and the other worker. 



'This ub-ti-acc of iiiper. taken from Proc. Amer- 

 Assoc. Adc. Set., will be priiittd in Gleanings. 



ENEMIES OF THE HONEY BEE.' 



The various enemies of the honey bee 

 in the United States, from mammals to 

 the fungoid germs or bacilli are named 

 and their mode of attack and effect are 

 given. The enemies consist of mam- 

 mals, birds, batrachians, several species 

 of insects belonging to nearly all the or- 

 ders, species of all orders of Ai-achnida, 

 and species of Asclepia and two species 

 of Bacilli. 



Prof. A. J. Cook. 



Agricultural College, Mich. 



»Tlie paper, of which this is an abstract, will 

 be printed in Ani.JJ.J. 



The API has been informed that an h-re- 

 spoiisible party by the name of Timpe, 

 Avhoseunf ah" dealings Avitlitlie beekeepers 

 of this country the past two years liave 

 made him so notorious, has taken it upon 

 himself to give the American golden Car- 

 niolans a bad reputation. Well, he 

 he or any other equally responsible parties 

 have the full consent of the Api to blow the 

 Carniolans to their hearts' content. Pitch 

 right in, gentlemen, and do your best to kill 

 them out. The probable eilect on our 

 business no doubt will be the same as in 

 the season of 1891. Very few orders were 

 received for queens of this strain until cer- 

 tain parties began to cry 'humbug" in all 

 the b:"e-papers. At the end of the season 

 by looking over our books, it was found 

 that nearly 500 golden Carniolan queens 

 had been mailed to beekeepers in all parts 

 of the United States and Canada. If any 

 one wou'd like to verify this statement by 

 an inspection of our books, they can do so 

 at any time. 



Now, Brother Timpe, if you would like 

 the full address of 10,000 beekeepers to 

 whom you will promise to mail your circu- 

 lar, the Api will furnish them. Notice is 

 hereby given, however, tint il: the said 

 circular contains anything of a personal 

 nature reflecting upon the writer of this, 

 Timpe will be likely to h jar from it as soon 

 as possible. Continue to blow the Carnio- 

 lan bees as all who know you know what 

 your statements are worth. 



The tirst the Api heard of this scanda- 

 lous circular was from a sul)scriber in 

 New York. It was as f oUov.^s : ' ' Have you 

 seen Timpe's circular? He goes for you 

 and Pratt solid. Why does Timpe make 

 such statements when he knows no one will 

 believe one word he says ? Timpe can hurt 

 no one but Timpe by his false, unreason- 

 able and absurd statements. 



