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ALTHOUGH all who are interested in bees, either from the scientific or the commercial and practical sides, are agreed that the weather plays a most important part in their lives, very little appears to have been done to ascertain the exact effects which different kinds of weather have upon them. The reason may well be that those who are interested in bees from a practical point of view would not be able to devote the time necessary to the making; of elaborate observations of the-weather and the weighing of colonies daily, to say nothing of the laborious calculation necessary to ascertain the results of the observations.
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MACE, H. The Influence of Weather on Bees . Nature 89, 62–65 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089062c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/089062c0
