A dictionary of practical apiculture by Phin John 1830-1913

Author:Phin, John, 1830-1913. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Bees
Publisher: New York, The Industrial publication company
Published: 1884-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

excellent eating, but it deteriorates very rapidly after being gathered, and should be discarded if, when cut, any yellow marks or stains are visible, for then it is too old.

For fumigating bees, they are dried by artificial heat. Thorley, in his " Melissologia or Female Monarchy," gives the following directions for collecting and using it. " When you have procured one of these pucks put it into a large paper, pressing it down therein to two-thirds or near one-half the balk, tying it up very close. Put it into an oven some time after the household bread is drawn, letting it continue all night. When it will hold fire it is fit for your use in the method following. With a pair of scissors cut a piece of the puck as large as a hen's egg (better at first to have too much than too little), and fix it to the end of a small stick slit for that purpose, and sharpened at the other end, which place so that it may hang near the middle of an eropty hive. This hive you must set with the mouth upwards, near the stock you intend to take, in a pail or bucket. This done, set fire to the puck with a candle, and immediately place the stock of bees over it, tying a cloth round the hives that no smoke may come forth. In a minute's time, or a little more, you will with delight hear them drop like peas into the empty hive. When the major part of them are down, and you hear very few fall, you may beat the top of the hive gently with your hand, to get as many out as you can. Then, loosing the cloth, lift it off to a table, or broad board, prepared on purpose, and knocking the hive against it several times, many more will tumble out, perhaps the queen amongst them, as I have often found. Lodging near the crown, she often retains her hold, and falls one of the last."

Puffs.— Puff-balls. Punk-fist.— The puff-ball.

Pupa. —A bee in its later stage as sealed brood. During the earlier period of its existence as sealed brood, it is simply a larva—not having spun its cocoon. After the cocoon has been spun it is a pupa, and so remains until it emerges as an imago or perfect bee.

The appearance of the pupa when changing its form from that of the larva to that of the fully developed bee, is very well shown in the accompanying figure from Bevan.

The appearance of the bee during the several changes from egg to imago are beautifully shown in Girdwoyn's work—" Anatomie et Physiologie de l'Abeille," Plate XII. Pure. —This may be a contraction for either pure-bred or purely mated. It should therefore never be used alone.

Queen.— n. The mother of all the bees raised under natural conditions in the hive.*

* It is a common practice to transpose the comb, eggs, and brood of diffeient

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