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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Queries and Replies. 



Pipinfi of Yoniig Queens, 



Query 785. — 1. After a colony lias 

 cast a prime swarm, is it the first young 

 queen that hatches out that does the 

 piping in a high, shrill key? 2. If so, 

 does this same queen come out with an 

 after-swarm ? 3. If no after-swarm 

 issues, does the piping queen become the 

 mother bee of the colony ?— N. C. 



Yes, to all of the above questions.— A. 

 J. Cook. 



Yes, to all three questions.— Mks. L. 

 Harrison. 



I think so, to all three questions.— C. 

 C. Miller. 



1. I think so. 2. Yes. 3. Yes.— G. 

 L. Tinker. 



1. Yes. 2. Yes, if one is cast. 3. 

 Yes, as a rule.— G. M. Doolittle. 



Indeed, I could never find out the 

 correct answer to either of these ques- 

 tions. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



1. I think so. 2. Y'es, if there is an 

 after-swarm. 3. The hatched queens 

 fight it out, and the survivor remains 

 queen of the colony. — R. L. Taylor. 



1. Yes ; and sometimes others, as they 

 hatch and are not destroyed. 2. Yes, 

 and I have known three or four such 

 queens with a second swarm. 3. Yes.— 

 C. H. Dibbern. 



1. Yes, as a rule. 2. Yes, as a rule, 

 and perhaps several others with her. 3. 

 Perhaps ; and it may be that she suc- 

 cumbs to another, which is hatched 

 later. — James Heddon. 



The queen, in any case, pipes when 

 she is crossed in her wishes. It is a cry 

 of anger in either a young or an old 

 queen. Y'oung queens pipe when kept 

 imprisoned in the cell before the 

 departure of the swarm. — Dadant & 

 Son. 



1. No. It is those confined to their 

 cells by the bees — or possibly both, as 

 we often hear more than one. 2. The 

 first young queen leads the after-swarm, 

 if the bees intend to swarm. 3. Yes ; 

 only in. this case there is no piping. — 

 Eugene Secor. 



1. It is the first young queen that 

 hatches which pipes in the high key. 



There are few exceptions. 2. The same. 

 3. She does. These answers I base on 

 long observations in the hive. But it 

 must be borne in mind that bees do not 

 follow invariable rules. — J. P. H. Browx. 



1. Yes. 2. Usually that same one, 

 and sundry others. 3. If there is no 

 after-swarm, there is no piping queen. 

 If, when the first queen hatches, the 

 bees destroy the remaining queen-cells, 

 or permit the young queen to do it, 

 there is no occasion for piping. — M. 

 Mahin. 



1. Yes; the piping is made by the 

 first queen out of cell, and is answered 

 by those not yet emerged ; hence, the 

 difference in tone. 2. Sometimes she 

 does, and sometimes she does not. Much 

 depends upon the weather. Sometimes 

 several queens come out with the 

 swarm. 3. It is supposed she does, 

 though it is possible she may be killed 

 by a queen emerging from a cell later. — 

 J. E. Pond. 



1. Under ordinary circumstances — 

 that is, if the prime swarm has not been 

 delayed by bad weather — the first young 

 queen will hatch out on the eighth day 

 after the swarm issues, audit is this first 

 hatched queen that pipes in a high key. 

 The sound, or sounds, that come as 

 from a-far off, is produced by young 

 queens imprisoned by the guarding 

 workers in their cells. The shrill pip- 

 ing comes from the first queen that 

 hatches, and is at liberty on the combs. 



2. Ordinarily, she is the one that goes 

 with the first after-swarm. 3. If for 

 any cause, the workers decline to cast 

 an after-swarms, the first queen that 

 hatches destroys her sister rivals, while 

 in their cells, and becomes the mother 

 of the colony. — G. W. Demaree. 



1. Yes. 2. Generally, and she is 

 often accompanied with several others. 



3. Piping is a sign of anger. When a 

 young queen is kept in the cell waiting 

 for the departure of the swarm, she 

 often becomes impatient, and piping is 

 the result. The young queens remain- 

 ing fight it out, in royal battle, and the 

 survivor becomes the queen of the 

 colony. — The Editor. 



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