A Manual: Or An Easy Method of Managing Bees: In the Most Profitable Manner to Their Owner, with Infallible Rules to Prevent Their Destruction by the Moth

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Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 - Bee culture - 128 pages
 

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Page 21 - For six consecutive hours, from nine o'clock in the morning to three o'clock in the afternoon, he counts (he is aided by the RP Francesco Maria Grimaldi) the oscillations.
Page 112 - ... in such a manner as to bring their bodies in close contact as possible, one lying on her right side and the other on her left. Now the reader will see that the abdomen of each are close to and fronting each other. Now comes the struggle, which is tremendous : they have not...
Page 115 - ... when it is known that they are their own masters after the season for the general massacre arrives, and are known to take up their residence in any hive that will receive them, and again take their departure at pleasure, and make any hive their home. The drone...
Page 108 - I ought to record the fact, that the bees, on the third day after they were supplied with young broods, resumed all their natural habits, labored with seeming redoubled vigilance, obtained a complete victory of the moths, expelled every one of them from their tenement, and protected their hive as usual. On...
Page 112 - I could discover a kind of shyness, like two men who would be glad to avoid the duel if their honor would not suffer, and remain some time looking at each other, in a sort of reflection before the deadly conflict. I have known them to make an assault upon each other, and...
Page 104 - I devised means ta exhaust the air in the hive of a portion of its vitality, which caused the bees to descend upon the bottom board, leaving but few among the combs, which greatly facilitated a minute inspection of the whole interior of the hive ; whereupon it was discovered that the comb was unusually loaded with the pollen of flowers.
Page 103 - Bees usually make comb containing coarse cells in some sheets, and fine ones in others, either of which are proper receptacles for storing honey or bread ; but it does not appear that they ever make either exclusively for raising young bees, unless they discover eggs in the cells. Then, if the cells are too deep, the bees cut them down to their proper depth, which is about...
Page 109 - The peculiar instinct of the bees as manifested by them, in changing the nature of grubs of workers to perfect females or queens, to fill vacancies occasioned by the departure of the old queen with the swarm, and other vacated cases, is the foundation of their whole economy.
Page 21 - ... of each board, with a shank or socket to insert a rod to handle it with, so that, when inverted by means of the rod, and placed over the bees when alighting, it forms a kind of half hive, which they readily enter. There should be from a dozen to twenty half-inch holes bored through the top board, so as to let the alighting bees enter through the holes. When a small...
Page 106 - ... would come across their sovereign : they did- so, and, in the course of an hour, I found her whole colony clustered around her. , . Now as I had...

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