Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary by Samson George Gordon

Author:Samson, George Gordon
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Bees
Publisher: London, C. Lockwood and son
Published: 1921-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Pig. 36.—Queen Cell with Pins ready forfixing in NucleuB.

bases of the cells, lest the embryo queens inside should be injured. Two pins are next passed through the comb to which the cell is attached, well up above the coll itself, at A and B. We then take the cell to the nucleus, and drawing the frames a little way apart, pin it on to the side of one of the combs. As considerable heat is lost by this method of keeping the frames a greater distance apart than would otherwise be necessary, a better plan is to cut a hole in the middle of one of the combs and pin the queen cell into this : whichever method is adopted great care must be taken not to press the cell at all, or the queen may not hatch; and even if she docs, she may be injured or deformed in some way. A sharp look-out must be kept that too many bees do not leave the nuclei; and if there should appear to be any fear of this happening, a piece of perforated zinc may be placed over the entrance for a day or two

until the queen has hatched out, to prevent the bees leaving the hive. It is nece.ssary to watch that none of the nuclei run at all short of store.s, and they must be gently fed whenever this is the case. Indeed it is almost always well to do this until the young (jueens are mated and have commenced laying.

Hive No. '2, which contains the old queen, may be provided with two or three more frames of empty comb or foundation if it is strong enough. It is likely to require feeding like all the other nuclei.

Do not Shake a Queen Cell.

Never shake a comb or frame containing queen cells if you can possibly avoid doing so. It is apt to injure or destroy the embryo queens inside the cells. If you wish to remove the bees it is best to drive them off with smoke, and afterwards brush off any that remain with a goose wing or soft brush, taking great care not to touch the cells themselves with the brush.

The "Edwards" Divisible Frames and Nucleus Hive.

Mr. Edwards has invented a very ingenious divisible frame (fig. 366) and nucleus hive (fig. 36a) which those who are in

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