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antenne to the utmost, and moving them to the right and to the left 
alternately. Woe to the unfortunate moth that comes within their 
teach! ‘It is curious,’ says Huber, ‘to observe how artfully the moth 
knows how to profit by the disadvantage of the bees (who require 
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much light for seeing objects), and the precautions taken by the latter 
in reconnoitring and expelling so dangerous an enemy.’ ” 
REMEDIES. 
The most effectual remedies against all attacks of insects, 
including the moth, is to keep all the colomes strong, and by using 
movable frame hives an enemy can be easily dislodged. The 
bottom-board of a suspected hive should be occasionally exa- 
mined ; for if the bee-moth has gained a footing in the hive, 
the eggs and larvee may be often found upon it, when of course 
they must be at once removed and destroyed. If, however, 
any colony should have become, through neglect, hopelessly 
injured by these moths, then the bees should be transferred to 
another hive, and the old one, with its combs, fumigated with 
sulphur. 
It is now an established fact, that wherever Italian bees are 
introduced, there this terrible scourge ceases to exist, and there- 
fore this one feature alone is enough to justify the introduction 
of Italian bees in the place of blacks. 
BEE-MITE, 
My attention was called last May (1885), by Mr. A. Bow, of 
Hokianga, to an insect he had found in his hives in great num- 
