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Bee -Keeping World 



staff Contributors : F. GREINER and ADRIAN GETAZ. 



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GERMANY. ever we can form an idea from othei 



circumstances. It is of importanc* 

 Drone Laying Queens.— Dicliel says whether we find irregularly laid eggil 

 in Die Biene: The symptoms of a ju drone cells or in worlier cells 

 dtt-one breeder are, "decrease in the When worker bees begin to lay egg; 

 number of workers and the appear- after the loss of a queen they use dron 

 ance of small drones in constantly in- cells ri-incipally. In the absence o 

 creasing numbers. Looking into the drone cells it requires a longer tim. 

 hive the brood is found irregular, the before the workers start any brood 

 sealings convex. Some of the larvae when a queen is present the bees be 

 are of an unhealthy appearance and h^ye normally. They prepare to rea 

 perhaps some are dead. Eggs are scat- worker brood and clean up worke 

 tering, a number of them found in ^ells only. The eggs, though in irregi] 

 single cells. These characteristics do lar fashion, are theirefore found in 

 not reveal anything about the origin of them. To cure a colony afflicted, ha\ 

 the eggs, for they may be laid either by i„g ^ drone laving queen is simpl> 

 a worn-out or defective queen, or by enough, for such will accept a ne^ 

 workers when the colony has been queen after the removal of the old on 

 without queen or means to rear one ^s easilv as any other colony. The 

 for a long time. It has been taught till will also accept a ripe cell or rear 

 this, that queen bees always deposit qneen themselves from young broo 



given. A colony with laying worker 



young bees can be made to start cellsj^ 



A dictionary of apicultural terms : 

 one of the latest books out. Of cours* 

 it is in German, gotten up by Dr, ( 

 Krancher. Leipzig; Two thousand fi'* 



tlierein. 



eggs properly; i. e., securely glued to 



bottom of cell and standing on end, '(^ not so easfly cured. ^ New bloo 

 while eggs deposited by workers show ^^st be infused first bv giving comt 

 up irregular. I found after mak- ^f hatching brood. After that thes 

 ing numerous experiments that a 

 part of the eggs laid by workers show- 

 ed up regularly, some otherwise and 

 lying on their sides, attached to the 

 bottom or sides of cells. The eggs 

 from queens which had been prevent- 



ed froni mating, appear exactly the hundred 'terms are properly explaine 

 same. The eggs of normal queens 

 wether they are worker eggs (fertili- 

 zed eggs) or drone eggs (so-called un- „ , . ^. „. ^ , 

 fertilized eggs) are always put into ^ urth says m Die Biene: to mat 

 cells regularlv (glued to" bottom of bees amiable let them fill up on ' hoi^ 

 cells and standing on end. inclined ey" to avoid robbing; do not feed 

 more or less). The fact that worker spi'ing but give enough in the fall 1 

 and drone eggs (fertile and unfertile last till honey comes again." 

 eggs) laid by a normal queen appear 



the same, is a proof that the mating of Reidenbach advocates handling bee 

 the queen bee has also influenced the during the early hours of the day. I 

 eggs which are to produce drones. And the morning, he says, during June an 

 by the way. another proof is: Young. July as early as 4 o'clock, 

 unmated queens continue laying eggs 



but for a few months, which mated Even the advertisements In >ot 



queens continue for several years, foreign exchanges are of interest 

 (even laying drone eggs.) looking over the Lepz. Bienenzeitu! 



It appears that we cannot .iudge as to we find the following articles etc., 

 the origin of the eggs from the manner fered sor sale: Honey-extractor whll 

 the eggs are found in the cells, how- works without can; foundation mo'' 



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