DISEASES AND ENEMIES OF BEES 



first made its appearance in this country in 

 New York state. Many an apiary was devas- 

 tated by it, and it has been only in recent 

 years that we seem to have found a cure. 



While this form of foul brood in some 

 respects is similar to the American kind, yet 

 there are several respects in which it very 

 materially differs. In the first place, it is very 

 rarely ropy in its consistency, and the dead 

 larva seldom loses its shape and becomes a 

 sticky mass, but on the contrary, it assumes 

 a watery consistency, and confines itself to 

 the grub itself, which in time turns a dark 

 brown. I have seen it a coffee black in some 

 hives that were infected. Only in its latter 

 stages does it become offensive like American 

 foul brood, but even then it is hardly as foul- 

 smelling. 



Mr. E. F. Phillips, Ph.D., in charge of the 

 Department of Apiculture at Washington, 

 D.C., is one of the leading experts on bee 

 diseases and will gladly render a report on any 

 specimen that may be sent to him in a tightly 



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