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craxdiny i;i the inside of the clothes. They av\)i(l enenries insteati of stiugt,dintr 

 against them, tliou^h they sometimes dash upon. And alst) riiio.su (1920?) 

 says of ituiica : "They can not defend themselves r.gainst enemies so well as 

 the Italian bees, and the Wa.x Moth plays he\-oc among them." DLiring a 

 dearth nicllifica invade the colony of the Japanese bee without much resistance 

 and rob away all the store. The Japanese bees disregard the invaders, even 

 show no sight of hate or struggle against them inside of the hi\c as if they 

 know n.ithing about the matter and leave in fact their store upon tleprixance of 

 the robbers. 



There is a further fact that mcllifua and the Japanese bee do not flourish 

 with harmony in one and tlie same locality. The government statistics gives 

 th.e following numbers, showing the Japanese bee diminishing year after year in 

 number of the colonies in consequence of the struggle against mcllifica ; it is 

 principal!)- due to the deiirivance of the store by the latter. 



Japanese bee inillifiica 



1913 S4.997 480S4 



1916 63.73s 49703 



1917 46.000 52604 

 191-S 44946 58. 865 



Tlie Japanese bees produce a peculiar noise of wings like ss all at once 

 at e\ery slight stimulation. This may be assumed as their mutual alarm and 

 is naturally due to timid or irritable nature. They are placed in restless 

 movement, when the irritation is strong ; they run Mbout, leaving the brood 

 nest, to hang then at the edge of comb or at the entrance in group. In this 

 respect, the bees from Fukuoka are more irritable than from Aomori and 

 Kochi. 



The Japanese bees defend themselves again.st the ferocious enemy / cspa 

 inani/arina, which is a malignant foe of them in this country. Mcllißca fights 

 against the enemy, but receives nothiag else than disa.strous damage, being 

 massacred and annihilated ; our Japanese bees behave themselves in this regards 

 ((uite profitable, taking advantage (if their timid character; they withdraw inside 

 the hive, as soon as visited by the enemy, and hide themselves, so long as 

 the latter watches. And, further, the offenders are balled and killed by the 



