BEE DISEASES 115 



to one of good size and it in turn may be 

 treated as above outlined. 



The essentials in the treatment are the 

 removal of all infecting material and the 

 protection of this material from robber 

 bees. Sometimes the bees resent being 

 transferred to a new hive and have a ten- 

 dency to abscond. This may be prevented 

 by placing over the entrance what is 

 known as an entrance guard which is sim- 

 ply an arrangement of wires so spaced as 

 to allow the passage of worker bees, but 

 through which the larger bodied queen can 

 not pass. If the bees swarm out past such 

 a guard, they quickly find that the queen 

 has been left behind and they then re- 

 turn home and are usually satisfied to go 

 to work. 



If a diseased colony is neglected it will 

 die sooner or later and any honey remain- 

 ing in the hive wiU be carried out by the 

 other bees in the neighborhood. Some- 

 times bees will rob colonies several miles 



