The Pyramidal Bee-Hive: A Plain and Natural Method of Preserving and Perpetuating the Population of Bees, and of Receiving Annually, From Each Family, ... or Destroying the Couvain; And the Art of - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from The Pyramidal Bee-Hive: A Plain and Natural Method of Preserving and Perpetuating the Population of Bees, and of Receiving Annually, From Each Family, a Box Full of Wax and Pure Honey, Without Disturbing the Bees, or Destroying the Couvain; And the Art of Restoring Hives, (Whose

It is evident, that if we intend to rob bees, thus lodged in a hollow tree or cleft rock, without injuring them, we must attack their store at the top; There the combs will be easily removed, because the bees have left them, and are busily engaged in the lower part of the hollow or cre vice, and do not even perceive the larceny; nor do they suffer by it, because these upper combs become superfluous by the new provisions which they instinctively accumulate, in their uninterrupted descending operations.

The manner in which the wild bees work in hollow trees or in clefts of rocks, is the same as that of domestic bees, in their artificial hives or boxes: they always begin at the top of the box, and work downward.

Here the whole secret of nature is unveiled - how to rob bees without doing them the least injury. From this habit of bees in their wild state, I took the hint of forming the pyramidal hive, or hive of three stories; by placing, each succeeding spring, a box under the preceding one; the Upper box or story of which, full of honey or wax, without egg, larva, Chrysalis, or fly, will be every year at the dis posal of the proprietor. Because the bees have abandoned that upper story, and carry on their labours below Where the queen mother is stationed with her family and young.

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