FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



ill 



flioisen in preference to wotker-cells, tliat is, dione-cells will be 

 filled with eggs or brood — perhaps two or more eggs in a cell — 

 while plenty of unused worker-eells seem handy. Eggs in queen- 

 cells are also likely to be found, and if you Hnd a queen-pell 

 with more than one egg in it you may be pretty sure laying 

 workers have set up business. Sometimes a dozen of eggs may 

 be found in one queen-cell. An egg in a queen-cell with no 

 odier brood or eggs present is a pretty sure sign of laying 

 workers. 



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-Pai'iiled Til! llire-iorers. 



TREATMENT OP LAYIKGAVORKER COl.ONIES, 



When a colony of laying workers is found early in the 

 season, about the only tiling to do is to break it up, and it mat- 

 ters little what is done with the liees. They are olil, and of 

 little value. Indeed, there are nexci' any \('ry young bees willi 

 laying workers, wlien the bees aie Italians or blacks, and it may 

 be the best thing in all cases to break tlieni up, distributing the 

 bees and combs to other colonies. 



Yet if a strong colony is found at any lime with laying 

 workers, and if, for any reason, it may seem desirable to con- 



