European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine by Jean Albright Tilburg bureaus Osef Wilwerding s ears Are attuned to the difference in Iho Buzz of a Queen Bee s wings from those of a worker Bee and those of 3 drone he also can Tell an angry Buzz from a Calm one. That can be important when he tends his 50 hives in a Hall acre of Woods near his Home in do Doldorf Germany 01 he 80.000 bees in each hive the single Queen boo in each requites the most care and attention since Only the Queens can reproduce Hoy determine the Type of bees and he Type of Honey his hives will deliver in he Early summer months when they arc r Lor mating. Wilwerding attaches Liny numbers to Iho backs of the Queen bees irom the most productive hives. Thil time of year they Fly out and Don t always return said Wilwerding. Who has worked 30 years Al Spang Dahlen a Germany. To is a budget analyst to keep track of the Queens i put on these numbers with Light shellac you can Tell by the Buz they Don i like Iho idea at  in some cases in was his intervention which Marie the Queens what Thov Arr Queens and Sarkeis emerge irom Iho same Typo of eggs the  Bei non Tho Queen and the worker is the coie Tipy reel during incubation ii nature produces no Queen in a hive beekeepers like Wilwerding can intervene a special cell or Trio growth of Queens normally produces one or two m each hive. If a hive develops no special cell and no Queen the entire Community will die with thai general Ion rather than lose them keepers move any growing Emale larvae from its cell into a Man made Queen cell. " Pul the now cell Back in the hive then worker bees Groom a new matriarch for  Tia Queens grow Large on what is called Royal Jolly. This nutritious mixture secreted by Young Honeybee workers is fed to All larvae for a Lew Days but continuously to those destined to be Queens people sometimes Lake the Jelly said Wilwerding who was born in the area where the base is. They think that it preserves youth. Although it s quite expensive in continues to sell in Germany.  the Jelly that produces one Queen is less Han a Len left of a Tram he said. You can Ima me How Many beehives you d have to Rob to do a human body any Good if Al All he has standing requests for the Jelly but relies on Honey to make his Hobby profitable. For his Protection he has marked the hives on his properly using a form of shorthand to indicate the aggressiveness of the Community. The most aggressive hives Are marked with a Symbol which looks ominously like a stinger. They Don t make the Honey for beekeepers but or their own future generations. When i take it i replace it with food Lor them but i m still the enemy. I be been keeping bees for 40 years but gelling Slung still  Josef Wilwerding transfers be end honeycomb to another hive Section. L few it Lewis or Mao Container used to Transfer Queen to new hive. Putting smoke into honeycomb calms the bees. Monday july. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 13