THE BEE-MOTH. 



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811. In Fig. 220, Mr. Tidd has faithfully delineated, and 

 Mr. Smith skillfully engraved, the black mass of tangled 

 webs, cocoons, excrements, and perforated combs, which may 



Fig. 220. 



WEES AND EEJJNANTS OF COMBS DESTROYED EY MOTHS. 



be found in a hive where the worms have completed their 

 work of destruction. 



The entrance of a moth into a hive and the ravages com- 

 mitted by her progeny, forcibly illustrate the havoc which 



