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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, 

 i 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 moths, a, , , a, Galleries of 

 the cell-boring caterpillar ; 6," the female : c, the male moth (Gal- 

 leria alvearia) ; d, rf, <?, d, galleries of the wax-eating cater- 

 pillar, e, seen at the entrance ; /, the same exposed ; g-, its 

 cocoon ; A, the moth (ChtUena cereana). 



