1918 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



281 



so I was surprised. After the swarming I opened 

 the hive and found a new queen hatched out. 

 and no queen cells. I think the virgin was 

 born on June 14 or 15. The colony was lo- 

 cated in a good shade, where trees stand. One 

 super was half full. Can you tell me what 

 caused the swarm: Do you clip the queen's 





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Swarming — 8-Frame Hives Vs. 10- 



Frame Hives 

 1 . What, in your opinion, 

 ny bees" 



vhat 



ed to be 



nail 



about 



after circling around my few stands, they tried 



to settle 

 the 



the limb of 



ch t 

 nd'the bee 



Just 

 s tried to 

 but were 



ed again, only this time 

 was attacked and lots of 

 ught the bees were rob- 

 front of this hive and 

 Do you think the bees 

 s it a case of robbing? It cer- 

 unusual time of day for them 



enter into several o 

 killed off. Yesterday 

 the same thing happer 

 only one of my hives 

 bees killed. As I tho 

 bing, I piled grass in 

 sprinkled water 



tainly was an 

 to swarm. 



2. I am running for extracted honey and am 

 using the shallow extracting super 5^ in deep, 

 and a week ago I noticed drone brood in the 

 lower edge of the frame in the supers next to 

 the hive body. But now I also find worker- 

 brood in supers. Would you advise me to use 

 queen-excluders ? 



3. I am using S-frame hives of my own 

 make, but will buy the factory-made hives 

 from now on. Would you advise' the 8 or the 

 10-frame hives? We have no important honey 

 plants here in East Texas, and our honey 

 comes in rather slow. Although my bees have 

 plenty of super room, they are laying out at 

 nights in big clusters in front of the en- 

 trance and in front and back of supers. Only 

 one of my colonies has swarmed. I use full 

 sheets of foundation. TEXAS. 



Answers. — 1. It is hard to be certain, but it 

 looks like an afterswarm trying to enter dif- 

 ferent hives and being attacked by the bees of 

 the hive they tried to enter. I say after- 

 swarm, because these little swarms with vir- 

 gin queens are more likely to do such unrea- 

 sonable things. 



2. If there is much trouble 

 brood in supers, you will do 

 cluders, although you will find less tr 

 you change from 8 to 10-frames. 



3. You will most likely be better 

 with the larger hive. 



way of 

 use ex- 

 ouble if 



pleased 



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