C.j« Of the Bees Enemies. 
SagttarUu ( if abundance of cold and wet rid them not a 
little rather) they will be filching: and one Wafpc will car- 
rieout as much as two Bees bring in. 
En what yer* the The Winter wee and cold , killeth many of the Mother- 
i Tjftes <trt few. Wafpes v. as they lie in their fleepe. The Spring wet and cold 
hindcreth their breeding: for being by that meaneskeptin, 
when their time is come to flie abroad and feed j they pine 
and faint, fothat cither they breed not at all, or verie late. 
And when a warme fit in the beginning of series hauing 
let them abroad, cold andftormie weather commcthfudden- 
ly vpon them j they are fhut vp againe, and fo ftarue for the 
moft part with hunger and cold : that your Bees fhall nor be 
much troubled with them in fuch a yeerc. Yea continuance 
of wet, though without cold,is fuch an enemy to the Wafpesj 
that in the yeere 1 6 1 3 , though , the former Summer being 
exceeding dry, the Wafpes were multiplied, and the Winter 
being milde, the Mother-Wafpcs were many at firft jyetthe 
Rainie Spring and Summer, didfo fpill their nefls , that 
there were no fmall Wafpes feenetill Libra, and thenvc- 
ric few. 
But the Winter being milde, and the Spring and Sum- 
mer continuing warme and dry, they liue and breed in eue- 
ric place : that, without continuall and diligent attendance, 
you fhall befureof great Ioffe among your Bees, though the 
former yeere there were but few : For one neft yecldeth 
breeders enough, if they fhould all liue, toflore a whole 
countrey. 
Forthefc caufcs, i<>u. there were euery where filch multimdf s, 
that the like lthinke was not knowne before in our memorie :infomuch 
that within two or three Furlongs of my Garden, were killed that Sum- 
mer abouc fittic great nefts : (and yct,by the refort to our Bees, Wee 
knew we had not all) betides it. Mother- Walpes killed in the Spring 
at our Bee-trough, which would haue made fo many nefts. And 161.0. 
for the fame caufcs the number was as great or greater.-and yet the ex- 
ceeding wet Summer following I faw notone fmall Walpc. 
Utmidu, agt'mft Wherefore , if you louc your Bees , fuffer not a Wafpes 
the tvjfrtt. j>eft about you. 
The ready way to rid them, is, If they be in a Tree aboue 
the 
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In'whatyeert 
they abound. 
