The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-08
BEES FIND THEIR
WAY TO SWEETS
SOME ALWAYS BUZZING ABOUT
CANDY STORES.
Insects Will Fly Miles Thru City
Streets, and Locate Factory Where
Honey Goes Into the Manufacture
Of Candy They Refuse to Eat
4 Sugar Alone.

4. Expected pleasure is sometimes turned
into unexpected pain.
This was amply demonstrated to a
small chubby-faced street urchin in
Minneapolis yesterday afternoon. He
had two or three unsold papers under
one arm His nose was pressed fat
against the glass Of Nicollet avenue
confectionery store window. While ad-
mlring with his eyes the goodies just
out OF his reach, his desire for the
sweets was being further aggravated
to his nostrils from an open ventilator
just beneath the window.
Fhe youngster g reverie was soon in
terrupted. He had not noticed num-
Der of insects buzzing about him, till
finally one of them struck the glass
window in proximity to his face, and
not. being able to take revenge on it,
bounced on the soft, streaked cheek Of
the small boy with vengeful sting.
The lads loud cries resounded above
the clatter Of vehicles in the street, as
he took to his heels and soon disap-
peared in the distance.
TIE insect which had stung the small
boy was not the common yellow
jacket" which so annoyingly works it's
way inside of screens and windows, but
was one Of a number Of honey-bees
buzzing around to get at the confec-
lions within. Honey-b bees, it seems, are
common visitors to Confectionery stores !;
and wire screens at these establish
ments are designed as much to keep out
bees as they ere at the ordinary resi-
dence to keep out flies.
Said j. r. Garland, the well-known
Minneapolis confectionerer to T b e
Jo&urnal: sr> @~s. q
Bees are continually buzzing around
the front Of our store. But they are
simply after the sweets, are never in
an angry mood, and I never knew them
to bother anybody. This is true Of all
candy stores. [ noticed a case recently
where candy factory in Chicago was
bringing suit against beekeeper who
had large number Of hives on the roof
Of an adjoining building. The bees
kept flying IN and out Of the window of
the candy factory by the thousand, fire.
quently singing the employees, and
stealing in a year great many pounds
Of eonfections. =. 49,,
tie. insects Flies, when they find they
cannot get thru screen, will still stick
to it. Not so with the honey-bees
When they find they cannot pet thru
| the screens, they do not linger around
but fly off for other fields where they
can secure honey without any trouble. q
Instinct Carries Them Far.
William Russell, state bee inspector
says: <:'s. : 525,>% wv -. = -
| - Bees will fly three to five miles
from their hives in search Of honey
They. seem to have a special faculty fo1
searching out places Where it is. to be
found. Who would ever think that a
bee would find it's way to the front OF
a confectionery store on busy street in
a big citya It is simply a demonstra
tion of their wonderful instinct. Bees
seem to have some method Of eommuni
cation with. each other by means OF
which one, which has made a. discovery
Of, the location. Of some specially gooids
and prolific honey field, will tell the
| other members Of his hive and bring
them all to the, spot. ..|.'
tract bees. % When they appear in from IN
Of a confectionery store to get at til,
sweets, It IS not the smell Of the tsuga;
which attracts them, but the odor Of i
small amount Of honey that is generals
used in. the manufacture Of candies
Bees will not touch sugar unless it ha,
mixed with IT. a certain amount 0,