STATE ENTOMOL()(tl.ST OF ("OLOl^ADO 



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Figure 1 — A Weil-Kept Colorado Apiary. 



ALTITUDE AND NECTAR SECRETIONS 



It is an cstahlished fact that flowers at high elevations and hifjh 

 latitudes tend to secrete nectar more freely than in ojiposite situations. 

 Dr. B. F. Phillips and Dr. J. H. Lovell have reported a great deal of 

 evidence pointing to a more profuse nectar secretion at higher ele- 

 vations. A beekeeper at Grand Junction reported to the author of the 

 American Bee Journal in June, 1919, that while three of his apiaries 

 were getting l)arely enough nectar to keep them alive, three others 

 1S(H) feet hi;;lier and :]3 miles awa>- had filled the supers and he wa.s 

 exiracting a good croj). Some of the largest crops in the State have 

 been reporle.l at elevations of H.OOO io 7, .100 feet. In some of these 

 locatio)is o\er 300 colonies of bees have been kept in one apiary and 

 a high avcrajic secured. .\1 tiii' higher elevations \vc tend to o-fi ;, 

 lighter colored and a soiui'whal belli'r (puility horiey. 



ADAPTATIONS OF BEEKEEPING PRACTICE FOR THIS RE- 

 GION—FALL PREPARATION 



We base Jiearly ideal conditions in the fall for the colonies 1o have 

 l)lent>- of young bees to go through the winter, in that we have a flow 

 lasting to about September 1.1, and sometimes until the 1st of ( )ctober. 

 But in order to have the largest number of young bees for winter the 

 l)(^ekeei,ers should see that every colony has a vigorous voung queen in- 

 Iroduced about August 1st. The queen should have all tlie empty 

 \vorker comb .space she needs for egg laying throughout the fall She 

 should be capable of keeping one ten-frame Langstroth hive bodv at 



