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Most ViewedAn Experiment 2An Experiment Time Of Greatest Irritability Expense Of Renewing Combs Burying Bees Remedial Experiments Bees Do Not Increase If Full After The First Year In Same Hive Bee Pasturage One Like Common Hive Preferred Not Properly Understood Least ViewedAn Experiment 2An Experiment Time Of Greatest Irritability Expense Of Renewing Combs Burying Bees Remedial Experiments Bees Do Not Increase If Full After The First Year In Same Hive Bee Pasturage One Like Common Hive Preferred Not Properly Understood |
A Cause SuggestedCategory: DISEASED BROOD. We are all familiar to some extent with the contagious diseases of the human family, such as small-pox, whooping-cough, and measles, and their rapid spread from a given point, &c. We must also admit that some cause or causes, adequate to the effect, must have produced the first case. To contagion, then, I would attribute the spread of this disease of our bees, at least nineteen cases in twenty. I will admit, if you please, that one stock in twenty or fifty may be somewhat affected by a chill to a small extent. It is only a portion of the brood that is in danger--only such as have been sealed over, and before they have progressed to the chrysalis state, are attacked. How many then can there be in a hive at any one time, in just the right stage of development to receive the fatal chill? Of course there will be some; but they should be confined to the cells near the bottom, where the bees had left them exposed. These should be all; and these few would never seriously damage the stock. Why then does this disease, when thoroughly started, spread so rapidly throughout all the combs in the hive? Will it be said that the chill is repeated every few days through the summer? Or will it be admitted that something else may continue it? I think there must be other causes, besides the chill, even to start it, in most cases. As our practice will be in accordance with the view we take of this matter, and the result of our course will be somewhat important, I will give some of the reasons that have led to this conclusion. Next: Reasons For The Opinion Previous: Answers Not Satisfactory
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