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eight or ten inches to remove this silken shroud, 

 and have known them to cut and drag out 

 their only remaining Queen before she was 

 transformed to the perfect fly, which occasion- 

 ed the entire loss of the whole colony. 



Repeated experiments have demonstrated 

 the fact, that placing bees on the ground, or 

 high in the air, is no security against the 

 moths. I have lost some of my best stocks 

 by placing them on the ground, when those 

 on the bench were not injured by them. I 

 have made a groove in the bottom board, 

 much wider than the thickness of the boards 

 to the hive, and filled the same with loam : I 

 then placed the hive on the same, in such a 

 manner as to prevent any crack or vacancy 

 for the worms ; and yet in raising the hive 

 four weeks afterwards, I found them appa- 

 rently full grown all around the hive in the 

 dirt. I have found them very plenty in a 

 tree ninety feet from the ground. 



The best method, in common practice, to 

 prevent the depredations of the moth, is, to 

 suspend the bottom board so far below the low- 



