Gleanings in bee culture . being made while the layingworkers are still in the hive. I should tliinkthis would be impossible unless there wereenough new bees in the hive to outvotethem. I once found a colony in a very badway with laying workers, with not morethan a quart of bees in the liive. I shookthem out, and gave a frame of larvae, andanother of hateliing brood. They reared anice queen, which proved to be a good layer. BEES STINGING BLACK HATS. Bees will sting black hats venomously,and will get so wild that they will soontransfer tlieir attentions to the wearer, anddrive liim out of the a
Gleanings in bee culture . being made while the layingworkers are still in the hive. I should tliinkthis would be impossible unless there wereenough new bees in the hive to outvotethem. I once found a colony in a very badway with laying workers, with not morethan a quart of bees in the liive. I shookthem out, and gave a frame of larvae, andanother of hateliing brood. They reared anice queen, which proved to be a good layer. BEES STINGING BLACK HATS. Bees will sting black hats venomously,and will get so wild that they will soontransfer tlieir attentions to the wearer, anddrive liim out of the apiary. A young fel-low working for me once came to the apiarywearing a new fawn-colored felt hat. Thebees took a violent dislike to it at once. Inless than ten minutes the hat was the centerof a cloud of angiy bees, and the wearerhad to decamp quickly. In this case I thinkit was the smell of the new felt that wasdisagreeable. I watched a peculiar experi-ment of bees stinging on one of my farms, 814 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. A bumble-bee that was obliging enough to pose for its picture. although the operator did not intend it asan experiment. The bees here are alwaysvery s^jiteful during ti-tree bloom. Thisstarts about the end of March, and has threesessions or lots of bloom, lasting in all untilthe middle of June. During the time ofbloom the honey seems to be secreted incycles—that is to say, the honey will comewith a rush for tluee days, and then let upfor two days, and during these spells thebees become very savage. The man I referto was wearing an old pair of trousers allgummed up with honey and dust, and hegot very few stings. Thinking, however,that they were really too dirty to wear anylonger, he discarded them and put on aclean pair. A little while after, the beeschased him inside, and he was glad to getinto the old ones again. He repeated theattempt to wear the clean one, three times,and then gave it up, and kept to the oldones until the end of the season. ARE REDWOOD
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