Show I Beet Bees Not So Wise Wile I A few simple experiments show that it takes very little to throw bees off their course 0 O. G. G Pike writer in Tid Tid- TIlts Bits If we move mo a hive hiye say ten yards ards from its usual spot when the are busy collecting honey the returning bees will not find their home they will fly about over oyer the spot where it stood and eventually die or endeavor to join other colonies During the war I found several swarms of bees near the battlefields of France managed to hive them in boxes and placed them in sheltered places In Inthe Inthe Inthe the autumn we returned to take the honey and found that a Frenchman had moved the boxes only a few yards from their original stand two days das before before be be- fore we wc arrived The whole of the surrounding grasses and weeds around the place where the boxes had been standing were black with lost bees |