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DISEASES AKD ENEMIES OP BEES. 



can not reach them. Where the mat hugs closely to the 

 frame, they will often be found between it and the frame. 

 Some of them frequent the hive apparently for honey 



Fiff. 85. 

 'honey boo." 



Fig. 86. 



TEICH0DK8 APIAKroS. 



alone ; others seem to be found only in the dust under 

 the cluster, while yet others appear to feed upon the 

 bees, especially the young and immature bees that are 

 thrown from the combs. The insect found most fre- 

 quently in the dust is a small chestnut-brown beetle, 

 about one-twelfth of an inch in length, and clothed, as 

 seen under the microscope, with the most minute hairs. 

 This beetle is given at fig. 85, of course greatly enlarged. 

 As this is supposed to feed upon 

 honey, it is known to bee-keepers 

 as the "Honey-bug." A beetle, 

 which in Europe destroys the 

 larvae of the bee, is Trichodes 

 apiariics ; I have occasionally de- 

 tected what appears to be this in- 

 sect, as it agrees well with Pack- 

 ard's figure, which is here given in 

 fig. 86. Some evidently harbor in 

 Fig. 87.-SEED GLASS, ^j^g miuutc porcs of the wood, as 

 often, when I have brought a bottom-board into a warm 

 room for examination, scores would shortly appear where 



