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Well Done. In Benton, Ill., Clem Cable tried to get the bees out of his eaves, lit some rags to make a smudge, burned his house to the ground.
For picnickers who want to know just what they are getting in for, two University of Tennessee graduate students gave some statistical hints from their study of the local bug populations. Every sandwich dropped on their leafy hillside will fall on an average of 102 bugs; a picnic cloth will...
Now it looks as if bee scientists have learned to deprive them of even these few tender hours. In Britain's Journal of Experimental Biology, C. R. Ribbands of the Bee Research Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station, tells how he and colleagues anesthetized worker bees by putting them in jars...
Beeman Ribbands is well pleased with his discovery. In some localities, he says, bees pay altogether too much attention to raising their young, and produce too many of them. He thinks that if whole colonies are doused with carbon dioxide, they will stick more strictly to business, gather more nectar...
*Nectar is a dilute solution of various sugars. Bees put it in uncapped comb-cells, evaporate it to honey by fanning it with their wings. If it contains too much sucrose (cane sugar), which would make it tend to crystallize, the bees add an enzyme (invertase) from glands under their...