C.y. 
< 4 - 
The Kind cau - 
fetl> many to be 
dr named. 
6 
Theremedie. 
Nat. hift.l.H. 
C.19. 
66 . 
The laft and 
worji Enemit of 
all . 
V. f.I.M.f?. 
&f<2,ti.6 0 . 
Of the Sees Enemies. 
bcft. But if you fpie any (lore of fuch dead or halfe-dead 
Bees, then your way is to put them in a Glalle, and coue- 
nngit, to turncit round againft the fire, till you fee them 
ready to fly e- 
Alfo where Palme-withies, or other trees whereon they 
gather, doehang ouer the water? the rough winds throw 
downe and drownea number of them, while they bee at 
worke. Many alfo, where there are no fuch trees, when 
they come but to drinke. 
For remedie of the firft, cut downe the trees : and for the 
other, fee c. 6. n. 5 6. 
Tot hoftibus , totcaftbtu, tam vtunificum 
animal expofitum eft. 
f There remaineth yet another Enemic worfe than all thefe. 
Forthefe all doe wrong the Bees but by little and little? 
feme in their goods, fome in their perfons : and there is re- 
medie (hewed, if induftrie be not wanting, againft them all. 
But this, when hecommcth,playethfweep-ftake wichthem ? 
carrying away both Honie,and Wax, and Bees, and Hiuc, 
and all at once: and there is no fufficient remedie found, 
either in the Bee-mafter, or in -the Bees themfelues againft 
him : neither (hall J, with all my skill, be euer able to dc- 
uifeany ; vnleflethe wifeftof the Land) when they meet to- 
gether, will ioyne with me in the inuention. For firft the 
Bees are leaft deftitute of their Keepers helpe, feeing at the 
times of greateft danger, he cannot alwaies be fub Dio with 
them,northey conueniently fttb Lare with him : although 
fome haue,for their fafetie,put this in pra&ife, houfing them 
and (hutting them vp clofe all the Winter : but notwithout 
much inconuenience. For by this meanes they ate debarred 
of their necellarie recreation v: in a warme houre,whenit 
happeneth : and if by chance they breake forth, they lofc 
their way in againe, and their hues withall. And as they 
want herein their Keepers helpe, fo haue they no meanes to 
fane themfelues, nonotfo much as the (illy (heepe, which . 
happily may runneaway. For their refiftance, which againft 
fome Enemies doth often preuaxle, againft the violence of 
this (lie Tenebrio auaileth^oching at all : who dealing vpon ; 
them 
