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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21584, 21 September 1935, Page 16

To the seedless raisin and the pipless grapefruit is now added the stingless bee. This insect is the painstak- • a.. _* —a Tiltw Ton .Qmtfh m Indiana, who has devoted his life to bee research. The bee without a sting has many valuable positive quali- *_•-_ tt_ s_ « l!m» Vioo mn travel greater distances, build bigger honeycombs, and gathers more honey. A swarm of these bees, it is said, yields 601b more honey than a swarm of the ordinary bees, and the queens are more fertile. Ordinary bees travel remarkable distances, for it is said that they work as far as eight miles from the hive. Mr" Jay Smith aims at producing bees travelling twice as far. He also aims at increased size, because the bigger insect can probe nectaries beyond the reach of the ordinary insect. So we may expect to see hftaey bees as big as bumble bees.