BEE RESEARCH.
CAUSE OF SWARMING. When the bee “nursemaids” have insufficient baby bees to which to feed the brood milk that they carry in their heads, it makes them uncomfortable. Therefore, an excessive number of restless young bees causes swarm--1,1 Such at least, is the new theory on which Mr I). Morland; Director of Bee Research at Kothamsted Experimental Station, is working. , . Mr Morland, testing his theory, painted a code of colours on bees’ backs a few hours before their emergence from the birth cells. The neighbourhood of the institute’s hives was soon filled with clouds of furiously bigiy bees, each spotted red, white or blue, and all competing in a sort of bees’ Derby between the hives and the clover fields. Mr Morland says that the experiment thus far has proved that very few bees entfcr the hives to which they do not belong.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 198, 23 July 1931, Page 8
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