American Apiculturist

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This is the reason why queenless bees will so readily rear drones even when a young queen is present in the hive. Should an attempt be made to rear drones from a young queen after she had been installed in the colony aweek or more, it would most likely result in failure. The bees would say we do not now need any drones we have a nice young ruler and we need no males till another year.