476 ENEMIES OF BEES. 
queen and killed. It appears that they can only propagate 
in warm countries, for they exist in the South of Europe 
and are unknown either in Russia, or in North America. 
$24. Small ants often make their nests about hives, to 
have the benefit of their warmth. They are annoying to the 
Apiarist, but neither molest the bees nor are molested by 
them. 
Our limits forbid us to to speak of wasps, hornets, mille- 
pedes (or wood-lice), spiders, libellulas and other enemies 
of bees. These lesser enemies are detailed at length and 
in a scientific manner, with engravings, in the work of 
Prof. Cook, ‘‘'Fhe Bee-Keeper’s Guide,’’ to which we refer 
the lovers of entomological study. If the Apiarist keeps 
his colonies strong, they will usually be their own best 
protectors, for, unless they are guarded by thousands ready 
to die in their defense, they are ever liable to fall a prey to 
some of their many enemies, who are all agreed on this one 
point, at least—that stolen honey is much sweeter than the 
slow accumulations of patient industry. 
* Mr. Manum gets rid of them by placing a piece of tarred paper in the hives 
where there sre some. The smell of tar drives them away. 
