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Wherever it penetrates it always fabricates a hollow 

 tubulated web, in which, as a rabbit in its burrow, it 

 can very swiftly pass from one part to another, and 

 speedily run back again. It fills the whole comb 

 with such webs, and turns itself in them every way 

 into various bendings and windings ; so that the bees 

 are not only perplexed and disturbed in their work, 

 but they frequently entangle themselves by the claws 

 and hairs of their legs in those webs, and the whole 

 hive is destroyed." 



The other species he accuses of being not only 

 destructive to the wax, but to the bees themselves. 

 " I saw one of these little caterpillars," he says, 

 " whilst it was still small, and was breaking the cells 

 in which the pupa of the bees lie, and eating the wax 



Transformations of the honeycomb-motlis. a, a, n. Galleries of 

 the cell-borinj? caterpillar ; b, the female ; c, the male moth {Gal- 

 Icria alvearia) ; rf, d, d,d, galleries of the wax-eating caterpillar ; 

 e, seen at the entrance ; //the same exposed ; g, its cocoon ; /i.the 

 moth (Gallcria cereana). 



