NUCLE US S WARMING. IO3 



five industriously at work building combs, of which 

 I needed a large supply, in addition to those in the 

 supers, for the new swarms. The weather was warm, 

 just right for comb building. I fed bountifully, and 

 the combs went on with gratifying speed. As my 

 queens were all young, these new combs contained 

 scarcely any but worker cells. 13 



To each of the other sixty nuclei I gave a capped 

 queen cell as described in the chapter on Italianiz- 

 ing. I had prepared a few more nuclei than my 

 plan of increase required, in order that I might have 

 queens enough, even if a few should be lost. It will 

 be remembered that in the spring the queens were 

 lost from four of the nuclei. It is quite probable 

 that the young queens, returning from " their wed- 

 ding journey, " made a mistake, and entered the 

 wrong nuclei. In arranging these new nuclei I 

 took pains so to place them that each was easily 

 distinguished both by color and position, so as to 

 give the young queens all possible facilities in find- 

 ing their own homes. For once I managed to over- 

 come my passion for having everything in mathe- 

 matical order, and put these nuclei in irregular 

 groups, under trees somewhat distant from each 

 other. As soon as they were thus arranged I open- 

 ed each, moved the division board and the rear 

 comb a little toward the back of the hive, and set 

 in an empty frame. These sixty were then fed all 



