CHAPTER XL 
DISEASES AND ENEMIES. 
Bees are subject to Diseases: Reason for — Foul Brood 
— Symptoms of Chilled Brood — Micro-organisms — • 
Schonfeld’ s Experunents Disproved — Staining — 
Bacilli Discovered — Adult Bees Diseased — Bggs 
Infected — Bacilli Alvei — Chronic Attacks: Reason 
for — Processes of Cultivation — -Sterilising — Colony 
Forjn of Bacillus Alvei — Spore Formation — Artifi- 
cial Infection — Manner of Propagation of the 
Disease — Salicylic Acid Cure — Phenol Cure — 
McLain s Plan — Camphor^ Crc. — -Bacillus Gaytoni 
— Diverse Organisms — Torula and Dysentery — 
Wax Moth — Preserving Combs — DeatF s-head 
Moth — Braula Caeca — Tits — -Toads — Mice — Wasps 
— Earwigs — Ants — Snails^ 
The all but universal opinion, that bees have general 
immunity from diseases, except the much-dreaded foul 
brood, and, perhaps, dysentery, I have during the last 
three years shown to be extremely wide of the truth. 
Sickly bees have neither pale cheeks nor sunken eyes, 
and, therefore, all were accounted equally healthy ; 
but the use of the dissecting-knife and microscope 
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