AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Queries ajid Replies. 



Bees Carrying Out Brood, 



QuERy 772. — What is the cause of 

 bees carrying out the brood, when they 

 are almost fully developed ? — Minn. 



Scarcity of honey vvill do it. — H. D. 

 Cutting. 



Usually, it is caused by starvation. — 

 Dadant & Son. 



Sometimes the cause of such is worms. 

 — Eugene Secor. 



Cold weather chills the brood so as to 

 kill it. — A. J. Cook. 



Generally, the larvae of the wax moth. 

 -G. M. Doolittle. 



some- 



Generally, scarcity of stores ; 

 times worms. — C. C. Miller. 



I cannot state the cause, not knowing 

 the surrounding conditions. — Joseph M. 

 Hambaugh. 



The bees may be starving, or the 

 brood chilled to death, or injured by 

 moth._— R. L. Taylor. 



Usually want of stores ; they will do 

 the same also, when the brood is killed 

 by cold. — J. E. Pond. 



A common cause is threatened starva- 

 tion. Another frequent cause is the 

 work of bee-moths. — M. Mahin. 



Moth worms usually. Sometimes from 

 different causes, brood dies in the stage 

 you mention. — James Heddon. 



It may be scarcity of stores, or the brood 

 dying from cold on account of insufficient 

 bees to protect it. — C. H. Dibbern. 



Have had no experience of this kind, 

 except in the case of drone-brood, so 

 could not say. Bees carry out drone- 

 brood in times of failure of nectar 

 secretion in the flowers. — G. L. Tinker. 



It is most frequently owing to a dearth 

 of forage, but sometimes worms get 

 under the brood, and the bees carry it 

 out to get at the webs of the worms. — J. 

 P. H. Brown. 



When I have seen brood thus carried 

 out, and investigated, I found that the 

 bees cuti their comb to destroy a bee- 

 moth grub. They also carry out drone- 

 brood when there is a dearth of honey. — 

 Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Sometimes brood becomes chilled, but 

 not killed outright, and when the young 

 bees begin to hatch out, many of them 

 are weak, deformed and worthless, in 

 which case the workers ruthlessly cast 

 them out. And sometimes bees at the 

 point of starvation, will cast out their 

 brood. I guess the " cause " is some- 

 thing like what I have mentioned above. 

 — G. W. Demaree. 



Either the lack of honey or the 

 presence of moth-worms may be the 

 cause. — The Editor. 



Queen-Bxcluders.— Mr. Thos. 

 Foreacre, Marshallton, Del., asks: 



I saw in the Bee Journal that Ira 

 Reeves had taken off 2 supers full of 

 honey. I can beat that. I put on this 

 Spring one simplicity hive havjng 64 

 sections. I opened it on Saturday, June 

 6, and found the sections all full except 

 a few in the lower tier, in which the 

 queen had laid some eggs. Should honey 

 be removed from the hive as soon as it 

 is capped, or should it be left in the hive 

 until it is cooler? What is the cause of 

 the queen laying in the surplus sections, 

 when she has ten hanging frames full of 

 good comb ? A wood honey-board is on 

 the hive in which the queen is laying in 

 the surplus sections, but I prefer zinc 

 honey-boards. We have had moisture 

 enough here; the white clover looks 

 well, and there is a plenty of it. 



Dr. G. L. Tinker replies to the above 

 as follows : 



It is always best to remove the surplus 

 conib-honey as soon as it is sealed. If 

 left on the hives for a month, or more, 

 the combs will be solid with propolis, or 

 be so travel stained as to injure its sale. 



The reason the queen lays in the 

 surplus sections, on the 10-frame Lang- 

 stroth hive, where excluder zinc is not 

 used, is becairse it' is not large enough 

 for the average queen, where proper 

 management is given, or the season 

 proves to be unsually favorable for 

 brood-rearing, as it has been this season 

 so far. For the best results in producing 

 comb-honey, I am fully convinced that 

 the two-story hive, having a capacity 

 equivalent to 13 Langstroth frames, is 

 superior to every other, even in a poor 

 season ; while in a good season the 

 results are surprising with these large 

 hives. 



Get a good hive and lea^-n how to use 

 the wood-zinc excluder, and you will 

 soon get on the road to success. 



