14— Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 2. 1960
Stinger Removal Disarms Queen Bee
To keep two queens laying eggs in the same beehive, cut
ofl their stingers, suggests E. J. Anderson, apianst at the Penn
sylvania State University Agricultural Experiment Station. The
queen that he Is working on, rendered unconscious with carbon
dioxide gas, is in the plastic receptacle at the point of his scis
sors. The operation, which is about as painful as cutting one's
fingernails, will keep her from stinging rival queens to death.
Obviously, Anderson says, two or more queens could build-up
colony population much faster and earlier in the season than
one. Fruit and field crops would be more effectively pollinlzed
and a larger honey flow would result. Problems have arisen
but use of multiple, stingeriess queens per colony will be further
Investigated this summer.
Pa. Sour Cherry
Production Down
Harrisburg Pennsylvan
ia’s sour cherry crop this
year will be the smallest
since 1956, the Crop Report
ing Service of the State Ag
riculture Department pre
dicted.
Sour cherry orchards in
in. Pennsylvania had a good
bloom, but frost in Erie
County cut the set of fruit
sharply below last year.
Frost damage was less severe
in southern orchards.
The sour cherry crop in
the five Great Lakes States—
New York, Pennsylvania,
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Sfingless Queen Bees
Live In The Same Colony
No successful means ever
has been devised to keep
two normal queen bees lay
ing eggs» in the same hive
However two queen bees
with portions of their sting
ers cut off. have lived to
gether peacefully in tests at
the Pennsylvania Agricul
tural Experiment Station
Both queen bees were
made unconscious wdh car
bon dioxide gas for the deli
cate operation, reports E J.
Anderson, professor of woe
keoping at the Pennsylvania
State University After their
stingers were cut, the queens
got acquainted in futile com
bat—and then settled down
in the hive to lay eggs and
ignore each other.
Professor Anderson says
two or more peaceful queens
in a colony would mci»ea c e
the number of workers, vnth
better chances for a big
honey flow Likewise, fruit
less hot tempered In usual
and field seed crops would
be more effectively pollinat
ed This procedure, if sucess
ful would avoid the usual
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SHRINK WILL BE DEDUCTED.
springtime “balling” and
swarming
The Penn State trials have
been conducted in one-frame
glass hives m Anderson’s
laboratory where the bees
can be watched
Some queen bees are ap
parently more docile than
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