IN—-DOOR WINTERING. 347 
deep wells, for six months, shows that a total deprivation 
of light cannot be injurious. It prevents them from flying 
out of their hives, to which they would be unable to return, 
after flying to the windows, allured by the light, when the , 
temperature of the cellar rises occasionally and unexpect- 
edly to 50 or 60 degrees. 
As bees, wintered on their Summer stands, begin to fly 
out when the temperature reaches about 50 degrees, and 
are in full flight at about 55, one can imagine how restless 
they become when the temperature of the cellar rises to 
55 or 60 degrees. They wait impatiently for the dawn of 
the day which will afford them the opportunity for flying 
out. But as the days pass and darkness continues they are 
uneasy and tired. 
CELLAR BLIND, TO GIVE AIR WITHOUT LIGHT. 
The warmth incites them also to breed, and as they need 
water for their brood (271), some leave the hive in quest 
of it and are lost. This happens more or less every Winter. 
