CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7691, 24 October 1890, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

„;; : :-'' 4 ! BEE§. vUl r . it .... *0 0?HB BDITOft Off TUB PBISS. ■• - ! :..•-»•/?, . .U; ;.'.>'!,* ".. -\-A ■ ■:■-■■ i - v>m{H y<i £!-.»; Sib,—ln Mr; Parr's. letter, ioi yowMul; day's issue,,of the 17cbj there are several incorrect »as.-<regards -these insects,, chiefly, in support of hbtjowr theories given; in his first letter.;...alls scientlflc names and habits are*- oft course, taken from booksuthe latter almost word for-word, from, I should say, 4, Cu?lers Animal Kingdom,)" taking care to omU those parts; affecting his remarks In his first letter, as, ■> fori .instance, -thati. the humble bee makes its nest and hiberpatfra in the ground from . Ift to 2tt>, more specially the vlerrestris, which is the type out* here, The Lapidary' variety is the one ot the large' sort that builds its nesi nearer the surface than any other, generally under stones. The Carder be© has Its bands on,the body so different to the Terrestris, that-anyone-like myself, -who have seen both this andother varieties ia England, could not mistake it for the TerresSris. I think If Mr Far* had only procured .some of ■ :these, ,bees ia their proper state*,'.'. as I did when a boy, and placed them under flowerpots sunk in the earth alittle,* he would have gained more correct Information as, to '.tbeii habits, than his watching and studying them since their arrival here, and fifteen years prior to their ad vent. , '.'.. A , As a proof of tbeir hibernating, and building io the ground, I have found nests, which is' easy enough in this locality, that con firms my opinion, and also dug them out Iv a state of hibernation. Another of Mr Fare's Incorrect statements of there baing only two. or three queens produced in a colony. This would only produce about 160 queens—taking, twenty to have been imported—to emerge from hibernation thi* last season, whereas there have been thousands for the last two or three seasons in this.locality alone. Apologising for encroaching on your valuable space.—Tours, &«•» ~„ _ .. Andsbw M. Bull. . Opawa, '■; .I, '.".'"'\ -