CONTENTS. Xi 



workers, wax workers and uursea, 218. Probable explication of a difilculty, 219. 

 Experimeating difllcult work. Swarming season best time for artificial swarm- 

 ing. Amusing perplexity of beea on finding their liive changed, 220. Persover- 

 auce of beea. Interesting incident illustrating it, 291. Novel and successful 

 mode of forming nuclei, 223. Mode of managing nuclei, 225. Danger of over- 

 feeding. Increasing stocks by doubling hives, 229. Important rule for multiply- 

 ing stocks. How to direct the atrengili o( a colony to the rearing of young bees, 

 230. Proper dimensions of hives. Reasons tlierefor, 231. Easy construction 

 of the improved hive. Precaution of queen bees in their combats, 234. Reluc- 

 tance of bees to receive a new queen. Expedient to overcome this. Queen nur- 

 sery, 235. Mode of rearing numerous queens, 237. Control of the comb the 

 ao\il of good bee-culture. Objection against bee-keeping answered, 238. No 

 " royal road" to bee-keeping. A prediction, 239. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Enemies of Bees. Bee-moth, its ravages. Defiance against it, 240. Its 

 habits. Known to Virgil. Time of appearance. Noctnral in habits, 241. Their 

 agility. Vigilance of the bees agains,t the moth. Havoc of sin in the heart, 242. 

 Disgusting effects of the moth worm in a hive. Wax the food of the moth 

 larviB. Making their cocoons, 243. Devices to escape the bees. Time of devel- 

 opment, 244. Habits of the female when laying eggs. Of the worm when hatch- 

 ed, 215. Our climate favorable to the increase of the moth. Moth not a native 

 of America, 246. Honey, its former plenty. Present depressure of its culture* 

 Old mode of culture described, 247. Depredations of the moth increased by pa- 

 tent hives. Aim of patent hives. Sulphur or starvation, 249. Feeble swarms 

 a nuisance, 250. Notion prevailing in relation to breaking up stocks. Improved 

 hives valueless without improved system of treatment, 251. Pretended secrets 

 in the management of bees. Strong stocks thrive under almost any circumr 

 stances, 252. Stocks in costly hives. Circumstances under which the moth 

 succeeds in a hive, 253. Signs of worms in a hive, 954. When entrenched 

 difficult to remove. Method of avoiding their ravages, 255. Combs having moth 

 eggs to be removed and smoked, 257. Uncovered comb to be removed, 258. 

 Loss of the queen the most fruitful occasion of ravages by the moth. Experi- 

 ments on this point, 259. Attempts to defendja queenless swarm against the moth 

 useless, 260. Strong queenless colonies destroyed when feeble ones with queens 

 are untouched. Common hives furnish no remedy for the loss of the queen. 

 Colonies without queens will perish, if not destroyed by the moth, 261. 

 Strong stocks rob queenless ones. Principal reasons of protection, 262. Small 

 stocks should have small space. Inefficiency of various contrivances, 263. Use- 

 ful precautions w^hen using common hives. Destroy the larva of the moth early. 

 Decoy of a woolen rag, 264. Hollow or split sticks for traps. If the queen be 

 lost, and worms infest the colony, break it up. Provision of the improved hives 

 against moths, 265. Moth-traps no help to careless bee-keepers. Incorrigibly 

 careless persons should have nothing to do with bees, 266. Worms, how re- 

 moved from an improved hive. Sweet solutions useful to catch the moths. In- 

 teresting remarks of H. K. Oliver, on the bee-moth, 267. Ravages of mice. 

 Birds. Observations on the king-bird, 269. Inhumanity aud injurious effects of 



