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ENEMIES f>F BEES. 





Fig. 1.— MOTH-WOEM. 



all, and matured a few thousand moths in addition to those 

 otherwise produced, thereby multiplying the chances of 

 damage to other stocks a thousand fold. It is probably 

 remembered that I said, when bees are removed from a 

 hive ia warm weather, that if the hive were not infested 

 with worms at the time, it soon would be, unless smoked 

 with sulphur. 



WORMS GROW LABGER WHEN UNDISTURBED. 



In a hive thus left without bees, the worms will grow 

 one-half or two two-thirds larger than when their right to 

 m^ the comb is disputed. In one case 

 /I they often make their growth, 

 and actually wind up in their 

 cocoon, when less than an inch 

 in length ; in the other, they will 

 quietly fatten till they are an inch and a half long, and as 

 large as a pipe-stem. 



When first hatched from the egg it is difficult to dis- 

 cern them with the naked eye. Their rapidity of growth 

 depends as much, or more, on the temperature in which 

 they are, than upon their good living. A few days of hot 

 weather, may develop the full-grown worm, while it would 

 require weeks and even months in a lower temperature. 



The worm, after 

 spinning its co- 

 coon, soon changes 

 into a chrysalis, 

 and remains inac- 

 tive for several 



days, when it 



makes an opening Fig- 29.— cocoons of the moth wokm. 

 in one end, and crawls out. The time necessaiy for this 

 transformation is also governed by the temperature, al- 

 though, I think but few ever pass the winter in this state. 



