THE BEE-MOTH. 



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discharge of the eggs, it is only necessary to seize a female moth, 

 two or three days old, with finger and thumb, by the head — she 

 will instantly protrude her ovipositor, and the eggs may then be 

 distinctly seen passing along throngli the semi-transparent duct. 



Fig. 1114. 

 WEBS AND REMNANTS OF COMBS DBSTEOYED BY MOTHS. 



" Last Summer I reared a bee-moth larva in a small box It 

 spun a cocoon, from which isiued a female moth. Holding her by 

 the head, I allowed her to deposit eggs on a piece of honey-comb. 

 Three weeks afterwards, I examined the comb, and found on It 

 some web and two larvae. The eggs were all shrivelled and dried 

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