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CHAP. XX. 



Diseases of bees. 



t^OLD, foggy, damp weather, in the 

 winter, is very often fatal to bees : for then 

 having no exercife they become fubject to 

 a purging, by which they are foon reduced 

 very weak ; and eluftering together in a 

 .body foil each other, and thus contami- 

 nate the whole. The figns of this difeafe are 

 fmall crumbs of wax about the door, or on 

 the floor, with many dead bces y and much 

 filth caked together, and, if of fome time 

 (landing, mouldy, often concealing deftruc- 

 tive wax-moths, &c. If the bees do not 

 fly out, and appear as active as other (locks, 

 it is a fymptom that they are either dead or 

 jiarving. In Hertfordfhire 1 had many 

 flocks affected j but in Pembrokefhire I 

 never had one difeafed j owing, I fuppofe, 



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