The Washington times., 1922-04-27
Bees Without Sting, Says
the Scientist. Admirable.

mented with the honey bee hoping to prsd.se a
bee of the stingless variety, which, he thousAt would
have three times the honey making power of the srnsy
bee.
insect world.
lens or thousands OF years ago many insect trssss
were organized into intelligent cooperative commses-
The bees and the ants lived together in colonies .ised
for labor and protection while men still lived in ksve
and on platforms above the lakes each lying in wait
for and killing his neighbor
Ages ago the insects had learned that the Individual
should sacrifice himself for the race, and the inferior
individual for the useful member of society
The working bees think only of the queen-de repre-
sents posterty-and Of the young bees that vii carry
on the work of the hive.
Put queen bee in small box with tumble bee
workers. put little food in the box and send IN through
the mails 1t may be delayed and the supply 81 food
hausted In that you may find all of the working
bees dead of hunger worry but the queen will find
alive Never will you receive package containing .
dead queen bee with working bees surviving her The
workers die frstobedient to the Of duty which
tells them that the bee alone be the mother
little bees and that she be saved for the sake of
generations to come.
That is quite different from the stories of many ship
wrecks among human beings-in which women often
are drowned first of all.
The scientist quoted proposes to remove from the honey
bee its stng-last remnant of brutality in the bee make
up When this happens the bee will be-as far eoes
"a perfect citizen of this panet-al usefulness gentle
ness, honey and peace.
And this bee wasting time or energy on msnufne
turing poison singing will collect honey and hss
more happily than .-
In the old days. before supreme tanned and ho1ssd
him, the bee could not get along without his sting Cater
pillars and other insects crawl into the bees home -
make themselves nuisance. The bees kill sucA 4
ruders, even small field mice, with their stings nd
when they too heavy to be moved the bees
with wax, sealing them up hermetcally inside the hive
and forget about them.
The bees hitherto have needed their sngs also to kill
off the drones The drone the male bee Many of him
born. The queen bee selects her mate the male
bee most powerful in flight She the gentlemen bees
herself by flying straight up into the very rapidly 10
great height The drone of most powerful flight
nues longest in pursuit of herand he is the father Of
all the thousands of future bees in that hive He does
live to enjoy the sweet influences of home, however, for
after winning his he always falls back to earth dead
which is distinctly discouraging.
The other drOnes, losers in the flying race. probably
laugh and console themselves they the victor hur
ng dead through space back to earth. They stoE
laughing however For the has selected her
and provided for the next generation. the male
drones, until that time fed and praised, become useless
bores And without loss of time the working bees-fe
males that the egg before Matching have been changed
from queens workerfa upon the poor dronee sting
them all to DEATH despite their pul buzzing and push
their carcasses out of the hive.
Thus, you see, before took them in hand bee.
needed stngs. But man perfected hives shut
the intruding moth, caterpillar and Man kill
off the big heavy drones and the workers the agony
of fratricidal work.
So the bee thrive stingess-at least the pro
fessor thinks So What the BEES think do not know
! If questioned, the bees might ask:
'What about the birds that will swallow us once they
find that sngs gone and that fear swallow
now Every little bird in its youth sung inside the
throat crop at least by bee. Being longer
stung by the first bee swallowed, they will continue sxal
lowing us-and shall not perish and become only .
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