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jointed, and the ten prop-legs — making sixteen in all, the usual 



number of caterpillars — are plainly visible. These larvae 



are about an inch long, and show, by their plump appearance, 



Fig. 104. 



that they at least, can digest comb. They now spin their 

 cocoons, either in some crevice about the hive, or, if very nu- 

 merous, singly (Fig. 105, a) or in clusters (Fig. 105, b) on the 

 comb, or even in the drone-cells (Fig. 105, c) in which they 



become pupae, and in two weeks, even less, sometimes, during 

 the extreme heat of summer, the moths again appear. In 

 winter, they may remain as pupae for months. The moths or 



Fig. 106. 



millers — sometimes incorrectly called moth-millers — are of 

 an obscure gray color, and thus so mimic old boards, that they 



