The San Francisco call., 1906-09-02
THE, NeINTYEE APLARY :

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away Under the watchtul attendance of tia
worker bees these eggs bring forth tiny white
larvae When these about three days old
Miss Mcintyre begins her operations.
First, She selects larvae from the very best
and strongest race of bees in the whole apiary
Next she searches among all the colonies fos
what is called royal jelly rich food composi-j
tion prepared by the bees for their queens alonef
IT is the consumption of this rare alnbrosia, com ~
bined with the size of the cell and the care OFT
the attending bees, which works the wonderful'
change in the larvae that eventually permits 1t to
produce not small, short-lved hard -laborings
worker, but large long Lived, beautifully colored
queen
Miss Mcintyre in the meantime. has prepared
artificial cell cups for these stolen members OF
drops a generous allowance of the pilfered royal
jelly, placing also larva in each cup.
The third step is to arrange all these cell cups
and their unconscious occur*nts upon little
frame support and introduce them into
hourishing hive, abounding with honey and filed
with workers who are Unjust the mood TO set
about rearing royal progeny. 10 the sole
attention of tho bees for these inter,oping larvae
it is necessary take away all the royal cradles
already established in the hive. Thus robbed of
their lawful. royal infants, tho bees without
protest devote themselves to rearing the change
lings
Now for nire days no human interference is
necessary. the bees will seal up the cells of
the royal larvae, keep them warm and guard them
from every harm. Around this cluster of royal
cells the bees will maintain constant body
guard whose duty II is to fan The air with their
wings and keep even temperature about the
slumbering queens. The best TO describe this
fantastic operation is to say that it looks like
sort OF weird dance. ,f-s
On the ninth day all is expectation in tie: rive.
for IN a few hours the expected queen will
issue from the cells. es'a ,is
Robbing Kingdom of It's Queen
And then LEONE along" says Miss Mcintyre,
almost sadly and, spoil all their hopes, for I
take away them promising royaf family, cell-cups,
larvae and all Then may be heard a m 'urning
throughout the whole hive Intelligence of tho
robbery spreads throughout the coloHy and he
INHABITANTS set UP sad. droning protest. Il
were wonderfully expressive of loss and Lain.
While they are still In this mood can introduce
another set of royal cells and the poor bees VIII
set to work in all cheerfuinesss again to go
through the rearing process once more Bees,
sunwearied in their heroic efforts to raise
their queens. seeming to understand perfectly
that the queen bees alone iay the eggs that
will secure new generation to the hive Is not
this marvellous anxiety for the future one of the
most wonderful instincts of this strangely gifted
racer
Each of the larvae about to hatch IS now re-
moved to its third home which is called n
nucleus and is in reality simply a small colony
of workers just enough to provide food and
tendance for the queen Here the larva finally
comes out from the cell to fnd itself a full
grown but rather pale and 'wobbly" young queen.
She spends from ten to fifteen days in becoming
accustomed to sher little klngdcn and getting