Bees as Hygienists.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 September 1910, Page 4

Bees as Hygienists.

Hoes have a very ingenious ami sanitary way ot disposing of a in ou.se or slug thai, may happen, hy accident or design, to lin' 1. its way into Lien' ],ivo. When t>Fio intruder is killed, as I he must he, the problem art ; 1 nv to deal with the bo:,v. II it - impossible to expel ( i s '. ii. thev will pm.nn.tl {net li: :I! v Lo 'en. !>•• : : •• •, -. ilahlr ■ '• '■ /• > w-iv. f ; ■ I"":. !.i, x a. beekeeper' three s■ * ■!i tombs sr'e hv 'e ted ..u'tii party waaN like the Vol's o! the ennb. so that no wax shoulu b. l wasted. 'I heso tombs the pruc.'jnt "sextons" had -raise;! over the remains c.l' three snails that n ddld had intrcd-ured into the hive. As a rule, when dealing with snails, bees will he content- to seal up -with wax the opening of the shell. But in this ease the shells were more or less cracked and broken, and thev had considered it simpler, therefore, to bury the entire snail, and had hurt her contrived. i.n ( ,rd'o,r that tramp inia;] it nrifc be impeded in the on trance hall of the .hive, a number (»t Kalleimes exactly pronortionate, not to their own girth, but to that of he ma e bees, which are almost twre as large as the workers