120 BEEKEEPING 



Denmark, has recently called attention to 

 a condition which he calls "bee typhoid." 

 He has described a bacillus which he 

 thinks is the cause of the trouble. Doc- 

 tor White in commenting on the Danish 

 discovery says that we probably have the 

 trouble in this country and it more than 

 likely is being included under the general 

 term "dysentery." 



It should be said that none of these bee 

 diseases could possibly be transmitted to 

 man. Those which are produced by known 

 bacteria may have the causative organ- 

 ism present in the honey which we eat, 

 but we can as entirely disregard them as 

 though they were non-existent. 



Bees have other enemies besides the 

 diseases mentioned and frequently these 

 enemies go hand in hand with the more 

 serious diseases. Of these the wax moths 

 are by far the most spectacular. I have 

 on many occasions heard beekeepers say 

 that the "wax moths" had killed all or 

 part of their colonies. Such a statement 



