QUEENS BY PARCEL POST.
Through June and July thousands of queen bees are sent by post to England from Bologna, which is a famous centre for the export of queen bees. They are placed in wooden boxes five inches long and an inch square, with a piece of wire gauze at one end for air. Each queen has with her three or four ordinary bees in the box, and each box has a lump of candied sugar, which keeps the bees alive through the four days they are in transit. Sometimes as many as eleven boxes are made into one packet, and as each queen is valued at from 10/ to £1 1/, they are dispatched by registered post. Very.few bees die on the way. This is remarkable when we realise that they are smothered by letters and newspapers, tied in maijbags, and buried beneath scores of other bags. Surely no other queen travels in such an undignified manner.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 259, 1 November 1932, Page 15
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