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rest the wings are folded so as to leave a narrow, flat space at the 

 top and then slope downwards abruptly ; when disturbed, they run 

 with great rapidity and slip quickly beneath any available shelter. 

 They fly with ease and enter beehives about dusk in order to lay their 

 eggs. 



The indications of the presence of the Bee-moth grub in a hiv,e 

 are well known to most bee-keepers. If the little black pellets of 

 excrement like small grains of gunpowder mixed with bee-bread or 

 broken cappings are at any time noticed on the bottom board 

 around the entrance, the hive should be at once carefully examined, 

 and steps taken to remove any caterpillars that may be found. If 

 attended to promptly while the grubs are few in number, this is an 

 easy matter ; but, if they are neglected and allowed to increase, as 

 they will very rapidly in the spring, much destruction will be 

 wrought in a surprisingly short time. 



When a grub is detected, it should be picked out with a knife 

 or other sharp instrument (a pair of tine but stiff tweezers will be 

 very convenient) and crushed. There will of course be some injury 

 to the comb, but this the bees will soon repair. When the grubs 

 occur only in small numbers, the bees will, as a rule, if the colony 

 be of proper strength, keep them down themselves. 



DESTRUCTIVE CABBAGE MOTHS. 



The larvae of two kinds of moths are, says Mr. Lea, late 

 Entomologist to the Department of Agriculture, very destructive 

 to the cabbage and turnip. These are the cabbage or diamond - 

 back moth (Plutella cruciferarum) and the stinking-head moth 

 (Evergestis rimosalis). Articles or notes upon both these moths 

 have several times appeared in the JOURNAL. 



PLTJTELLA CRTJCIFERUM (Zell). 



The larvae of this little moth (which is common all over the 

 world) are very destructive to the cabbage, cauliflower, and turnip. 

 The leaves have small holes eaten in them, and these holes are 

 frequently so numerous that more than half the leaf is devoured ; 

 with cabbages, the inner leaves are seldom attacked, though larvae 

 may occasionally be seen in the heart itself, the damage is usually 

 to the outer leaves ; with cauliflower every leaf is attacked and 

 the crown is frequently covered with excrement and web, becomes 

 of a brown colour, and is totally unfit for market ; hundreds of 

 larvae and pupae may be seen on one plant. The larva is pale green 

 in colour, and, on being touched, jerks itself about and drops down, 

 usually by a fine silken thread ; when about to pupate it spins a 

 loose, silken cocoon generally close to the mid-rib, the cocoon is so 

 slight that the pupa can always be seen through it. The moth is 

 a small slaty-grey insect with diamond- shaped white marks along 

 the middle of the folded wings; it is readily attracted to light. All 



