IHE BEE. 



in her chops as she flies, and lihat not far from the hive when 

 they come laden and weary home. The hornet being much 

 too strong for the hees, is a great devourer of them. Her 

 manner is to fly ahput the hive till she has spied her prey 

 settled at the door, and then suddenly she taketh it in her 

 feet and flies away with it, as a kite with a chicken. In de- 

 stroying the hornet you must be wary, for their stinging does 

 oftentimes cause a fever; and less than thirty, as some say, 

 will kill a man. 



" 5. The wasp is a great enemy to the bees, and more hurtful 

 than the hornet; for the wasps destroy the honey as well as 

 the bees themselves. The best way to destroy them is by kill- 

 ing the mother wasps when they first come abroad ; you may 

 take them with your flag at your bee doors on the hives, where 

 they sit sunning themselves, and on the gooseberry bushes from 

 the beginning of May, 



" 6. The spider is another enemy, which harbours between 

 the hackle and the hive, and you shall seldom find that sho 

 hath not two or three bees in store to feed on ; and sometimes 

 when the bees are weak they will be bold to enter the hive 

 and there weave their fatal web. Ashes strewed on the out- 

 side of the hive will not sufier the spider to harbour there. 

 And thus much for destroying the bee's enemies." 



OOIIBAI BETWEEN WASF AND SFISEB. 



