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of the moth, it's good property, and it is well worth your while to 

 keep it to give the bees again. Something, however, depends 

 upon how the bees fill out the vacancies in the combs. If they 

 fill, them up with drone-comb you might better melt up the combs 



Fig. 5. What remains of a comb devastated by beemoth. 



and give foundation. If given to a strong colony in a flourishing 

 condition you can count on a lot of drone-comb ; if given to a nu- 

 cleus, or to a swarm when first hived, you may count on worker- 

 comb. 



Q. If I brush the bees from my section honey and put it in 

 folding cartons, such as are listed in supply catalogs, right in the 

 bee-yard, will I be bothered with the beemoth in ray honey, and 

 will this not save trouble in fumigating? Of course, this honey 

 will be well sealed before putting in cartons. 



A. No, you can't trust to anything of the kind. Years ago, 

 if I took off sections and kept them where no moth could touch 

 them, within two weeks tiny worms would appear here and there. 

 The only way I could understand it was that the moth must have 

 gotten inside the hive and laid the eggs on the sections. Of late 

 years I have no trouble of the kind, probably because of the 

 Italian blood. With black bees I had a good deal of trouble, and 

 fumigated with sulphur. Carbon disulfide may be better. 



Bee-Paralysis. — Q. Two of my colonies are killing what 



