BEE RESEARCH
THE CAUSE OF SWARMING. LONDON, July 10. When the bee nursemaids have insufficient bee babies 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 swarming. Such, at least, is the new theory on which Mr D. Morland, Director of Bee Research at Rothamsted 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 busy bees, each spotted red, white, or blue, and all competing in a sort of bees’ Derby between the hives' and the clover fields for the “ Honey Stakes.”
Mr Morland says that the experiment thus far has proved that very few bees enter the hives to which they do not belong., •
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21390, 18 July 1931, Page 11
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