Show Winders of pees Bees r And An d Honey Fourth of send senet series of af articles b by GEO E E CARRI GARRETT TT Local f Apiarist y J The social organization or of th loves is most interesting mt resting There are usually to bees in one live Several h bundled of these are drones one is a queen q icen een and the others re workers worker 1 The I he dron drones are males and nd the queen and workers females T Tiey ej all s start art as little white eggs ach ch In the bottom of i a cell and andi PASS pass through the and cocoon staKe stage before they came come out is lS regu regu- regular lar r bees with 6 G l legs lags s 4 wings a lotof lot lat of eyes and 2 stomachs The queen qUE is 15 e mother and lays l the eggs some sometimes mes Hies seveN several thou thou- thousand i sand And nd a day She sates mates only once in m air und and avid s she comes out dater with sith a s a swarm m in she spends the rest r st of h her her l life e sometimes je yeah S 'S in m tile the r der hive She is roared than the I i odel s When Then tm tiny egg egg- from h the future mother of the col- col colony ony any ij hatched It IS fed 13 lavishly upon jelly i a food prepared by the nurse nu nur e bees bp 3 bees less than ten days das old he The small cell 1 is en- en enIla larKed en-larKed Ila ed to about ut the size SiZe- of an aco nto nto n nto to accommodate te I f th the growth of her Royal Highness 1 In the JU just preceding swarm sann s ann m time a Q number of queens arethus areL arethus are arc L thus re r reared d flip old queen ill frill Ill go o out with Ith a l S rm to start a new colony leaving Mist just J st the young qu queen n emerges S They They will 11 tolerate bat one queen in m i a hire hi e at the same sime time con the first one to hatch will win kill all aPi hea rivals by tear tear- tearing tearing I ing down the cells in m which they are with h her r rI I strong trong cr as nS asame the maternal dutIes I oi of the hIve hm Dunn During the busy season of summer summer- the queen queen mil will lay twice t ce ceI I her own weIght m n eggs cg s every 21 2 hours I 1 In r recent cn years year s i a great industry has sprung Sop I up in in our southern tier ber or of states namely the rearm rearing of quee is and package bees to supply northern states state and aid Canada Canidi thousand thou I sand and and- of queens are alc shipped through h the marl mall annually I One beekeeper r in m la Ia a recent issue of s in m Bee Doe Culture thanks I his customers fo their patronage a id purchase of packages of bees and poo queens I The drones have a ve no stings and would starve to death deith in m a cloven I field So they ther ne ne neither ther work nor fight I The Thes live lie a few fees months carefree on the honey them they sisters store and andI andU I U tI sn en n theses thes sister drie c them from fromI I the hi hive e and nd lull kill them off foi the they I aTe e useless to the Hie hive during the thelon thelong thelong lon long wm winter Cr season and not v orth their keep heep 1 The Th v i milers bikers hale have ha stings stIng and use hem They do all oP the wor work r tle th fi nectar make comb feed the ventilate and guard the hIve Jn summer s time they work so 50 hard they hie hv In e only about 81 six sip weeks They are females but not fully developed is the gheen They hatch the the- e egg n laid In n the cell by the queen in m sll li 1 da days dav s and acid spend sp nd the fir fiat t i mx 1 01 or seven ven days of of their l life le e as use urse bees JS taking care care of the newly hatched brood secrete te the wax war wa made mader r om the honey boney in the hive hire from r luch they th y build their comb After Aitel a few days thus spent they do forth from irom th the hive e in m search of mi tar which Ich they ripen into honey The homing instinct is 15 wonderful I to ta every observer observed d During a scarcity nectar the they will 1 fly from 1 l to 2 rules I-rules niles away ay and without chart or orI compass return to their own hive nd deposit ther cargo c wIth I that of If thousand thousands thousand of others All for for one and one for all |