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Frank Benton and Cyprian bees
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T & M Weatherhead <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:43:32 +1000
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> Along the way, I believe he invented the Benton (three-hole) shipping cage
we see so often.

I have a record of the Benton mailing cage being described in a beekeeping
journal in Australia in March, 1889.  There is also an account of an
improvement by a queen breeder here in Australia.

If the Frank Benton I have details for is the same person, it seems he went
from the USA to Cyprus working with Cyprian bees.  I have an account of
Benton sending queen bees from Cyprus to Australia in 1886.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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