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: 4 5 MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY 
v\ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE JUN 99 1931 & | 

BEE CULTURE 

Jas. I. Hambleton, in Charge 
| H. B. Kirk, in charge of Apiary Inspection, Pennsylvania Depart-— 
| ment of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., spent May 11 and 12 at the Bee 
| Culture Laboratory, studying methods used in making laboratory diagnoses 
of bee diseases. 
Charalambos Simopoulos, Minister of Greece, accompanied by Angelo 
Anninos, Counselor of the Legation, visited the Bee Culture Laboratory 
on May 25. Mr. Simopoulos expressed great interest in the work of the 
laboratory. He was anxious to obtain information relative to the bee— 
| keeping industry in the United States to transmit to the beekeepers of 
his own country, where an attempt is being made to place beekeeping on 
a modern basis. Mr. Simopoulos later sent two cans of Grecian honey of 
excellent quality to the laboratory to be included in the collection of 
| foreign honeys. Considerable quantities of this honey are imported into 
the United States, going almost exclusively to the fancy retail grocery 
trade. 
Dr. Everett Oertel, of the Southern States Bee-Culture Field Lab- 
oratory, Baton Rouge, La., took a trip in May through northwestern Florida 
to make observations on the work of honeybees during the peak of the 
tupelo blossoming period. 
A colony of bees was recently installed in a glass observation hive 
in the new reptile house at the National Zoological Park, Washington, 
D. C. Some difficulty was experienced in installing the bees, inasmuch 
as it was necessary for them to traverse a long tunnel before they would 
be free to fly. After certain changes had been made to improve the ven- 
| tilation of the colony, the bees accepted their new quarters and are now 
reacting quite normally. 
With the rapid passing of large forest trees stray swarms of 
bees are being forced to accept whatever shelter is available, and so are 
becoming more and more evident in dwellings. The division of Bee Culture 
Investigations, Somerset, Md., has had an unusual number of telephone 
requests and personal appeals from people throughout the city asking 
how to hive swarms that have settled in their yards, or how to remove 
them from the walls and attics of houses... 
