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The diseases from which bees and bee-brood are likely 
to suffer should cause little or no depreciation in the 
annual honey yields—if the owner is wide awake, and 
will apply immediate curative treatment, such as the 
Author explains. Every known disease of bees can be 
and must be excluded from the apiary by systematic 
endeavour. 
CHAPTER IX. 
ENEMIES -AND DISEASES OF BEES. 
HERE are many creatures that will eat dead bees, 
ris but if all colonies are in good condition there is 
no enemy known in this country that can cause 
any serious depreciation in the population of our stocks. 
Birds occasionally take bees, but according to my own 
observation dead drones and workers are usually eaten, or 
those which may have become chilled. 
Wasps do the same, but are not often able to rob the 
stores of a hive unless it has a small population. Hornets 
will pick up workers from the entrance more readily than 
any bird, but luckily they are not very numerous, and are 
rarely seen. : 
Ants are at times somewhat worrying, but these may be 
checked by fixing special cast-iron cups to the legs of the 
hive, and placing therein oil, Izal, or some other liquid 
disagreeable to them. Izal powder dusted around the base 
of the hive, when there are no legs, will check the ants, as 
well as moths and earwigs, if dusted over the quilting 
where these are troublesome. 
