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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



Work of the Mediterranean Hour-niotli. 



1 have mentioned before how I have ad- 

 vertised in the local paper here this fall. 

 The results were very satisfactory. I sold 50 

 lbs. to a man in North Dakota. He used 

 to live here, and still took the paper. I also 

 sold 40 lbs. to a man in Massachusetts in 

 the same way. All of this was put up in 

 one-gallon cans. From my one year's ex- 

 perience I think very highly of the local-pa- 

 per advertising. The expense for several 

 months was not much over $5.00 — a mere 

 bagatelle comi)ared with the results; and I 

 recommend this way of advertising to any 

 one who wants to work uj) his home trade, 

 for such business is all cash antl no waiting, 

 and producers can thus reach the customers 

 direct. It would not mean a very great ex- 

 pense to take quite a number of village and 

 city papers within, say, fifty or one hundred 

 miles, and I am satisfied that advertising 

 in them would mean a big surprise. 



The honey-dealer is all right. He will 

 pay more if the price goes up, or if he has 

 to — he is human. As a rule, honey-dealers 

 are reliable people — at least according to my 

 experience. 



Randolph, N. Y. 



THE MEDITERRANEAN FLOUR MOTH INFEST- 

 ING COMBS. 



BY WESLEY FOSTER. 



Every fall and winter many combs stored 

 in our sho]) or outyard bee-houses become 

 infested with the larva? of a moth, gray in 

 color but smaller than the wax-moth. The 

 larviT" seem to be very fond of the i)ollen, 

 and the pollen-filled combs are just covered 

 with the webs, and larv* crawling through 

 them. The larva' do not cut through the 

 wax-cells, but extend their webs along the 

 surface of the comb, and are often found 

 down in the cells, to all appearances eating 



the pollen. They are about half an inch 

 long, and slightly pinkish in color. The 

 moth is gray, and about the same length. 

 I have found hundreds of the larvu' in their 

 web-constructed channels or long narrow 

 passageways between the division-board 

 and the side of the hive. In fact, they will 

 rarely be found between combs unless they 

 are very close together. I have gotten rid 

 of them by spreading the combs an inch or 

 two apart, though the best way is to put the 

 combs over a good strong colony of bees. 



Prof. (Jillette informs me that the moth 

 is probably the ISIediterranean flour-moth, 

 Eapestia kuhnieUa. I have found worms 

 very similar to these larva^ in packages of 

 old, spoiled, rolled oats, and they are prob- 

 ably the same. When we first came to 

 Colorado we thought we had the regular 

 Eastern wax-moth (and they do show up 

 here once in a while) , but they can not gain 

 much headway on account of the dry at- 

 mosphere. 



Boulder, Col. 



REPORT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE CON- 

 VENTION. 



BY H. C. KLINGER. 



The summer meeting of the Pennsylva- 

 iiia State Bee-keepers' Association was held 

 in Reynoldsville, July H and 12. This 

 town is located at the foothills of the Alle- 

 gheny Mountains, and has in its vicinity a 

 number of enthusiastic bee-keepers. 



The presiding officer was Dr. H. A. Sur- 

 face, Economic Zoologist, Harrisburg, Pa. 

 Hon. S. B. Elliot, of the town, welcomed 

 the bee-keepers in well-chosen words. Sev- 

 eral of the sessions were i)ublic demonstra- 

 tions, and were held in a little grove on the 

 lawn of A. M. Applegate. 



The chairman of the legislative commit- 



