19B Preventing Worms from destroying Pees. 
light brown colour, and very much resemble those 
we see on summer evenings flying about our can- 
dles. Every evening they may be seen about the bee 
hives. 
Several methods of preventing their destructive ravages 
have been practised in this neighbourhood. Placing the 
hive on four blocks, so as to raise it about two or three 
inches from the bench, has succeeded in a great many 
cases. This method leaves no harbour for the worms un- 
der the hive, and they are destroyed by the bees. The 
blocks must be removed before winter, or the bees will 
perish with the cold. 
Another method that has been attended with success is 
to join the hive so closely to the bench, as to leave no 
harbour for the worms. But, perhaps, a much better me- 
thod than either of the preceding, is to suspend the hive 
in the air by means of ropes. The worms have then no 
harbour. The hives must be placed on a bench before 
winter. 
But, I believe, the most successful method yet disco- 
vered, is to raise the hive from the bench early in the 
morning, two or three times a week, and destroy the 
worms, which can be very easily done with a small 
stick. This method has, in many instances, proved 
completely successful, so that in the fall, when the 
bees were killed, not a single worm was to be found. 
I have sent you some of these worms, which I this day 
took from a bee hive in this neighbourhood. If you are 
desirous of any further information respecting them, I 
will communicate it, if in my power, with great plea- 
sure. Yours, &c. 
Thomas Chapman. 
To John II. Coxe, M. D, 
