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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 tills the whole 

 comb with such webs, and turns ilstlf in them 

 every way into various Ix'udinijs and windings; so 

 that the bees are not only pcr|)lc.\cd 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, 

 ' whilst it was still small, and was breaking the cells 

 in which the pupa of the bees lie, and eating the wax 



Trar<' •■ lioneycomh mo(hs. <i, n, n, n, Galleries of 



the cell I):' ui^' i;cti r; ill.'ir ; 6, the iVmnle : >-, the mule iiiolh (Gat- 

 Uria ahtaria); rf, ti, d, rf, EHllei ie9 Of the wax-eatiig tater- 

 pillar, c, sren nt the nitrance ; /, the «ame ejiposed ; g, lu 

 COCOOa; A, the moth (Galitria ctrcor.aj. 



