22 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS ON APICULTURE. 



other bees. If sufficiently covered with debris, they are to some extent 

 removed from robbing workers. 



These results prove conclusively that the two wax moth-. Galleria 

 mellonella and Achroia grisella, do not eat the scales formed from 

 larvae which have died of American foul brood. It is clear, therefore, 

 that infectious material in a colony dying of this disease remains even 

 after the comb is destroyed. The one point in favor of these moths, 

 from a bee keeper's standpoint, is therefore disproven. 



