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fected as to prove unprofitable. However, there are localities in which 
buckeye is so abundant that it appears doubtful if beekeeping could be 
profitable with any race of honeybees without special management to cir— 
cumvent exposure of the brood." 
California "native" bees determined as German blacks.--E. L. Se— 
christ, Davis, Calif., reports that "Several samples of the ‘native 
California black bees' from the two lots that we now have at Davis, 
one being brought by Todd and Sechrist from Humboldt County, California, 
and the other coming from Mr. Kimball of Amador County, were sent to 
Warren Whitcomb of the southern field laboratory, Baton Rouge, La., for 
examination. After making measurements of these he reports that he finds 
them in no way different from the common black, or German, bee. It is 
therefore quite probable, as has been believed by most investigators, that 
these black bees are descendanis of the original black colonies that were 
first brought from the Bast to California. The bees from Amador County 
are in the hands of the son of the original owner of the stock and they 
have been in the same location without intrcduction of queens since 1871. 
Of the Humboldt bees we have no reference except the statement that they 
have ‘always been in that region. '" 
Wax moth devours phonograph record.——-"The variety of focds that 
the larvae of Galleria mellonella L. will eat and apparently thrive on 
is astonishing," reports Warren Whitcomb. "One larva fed on a dictaphone 
cylinder and pupated in the cloth lining of the cylinder carton. Pure 
wax is not an ideal food, and larvae fed on it are small and transform 
into small adults." 
Bee necessary to upkeep of stock ranges.--Dr. Arthur W. Sampsen, 
Plant Ecologist of the University of California, was consulted in July 
by specialists of the Davis, Calif., field laboratory concerning the 
value of bees to the maintenance of California stock ranges, honey plants 
in the various life zones of the State, and the arrangements of life—zone 
tables for use of beekeepers in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges. It 
is of particular note that Dr. Sampson was very positive in his statement 
that bees were of high importance in keeping up the stock ranges because 
of their activities in pollinating the various wild range plants. With-— 
out bees, he said, the ranges soon deteriorated. 
