regulating sections, (he entrance may be enlarged or 
diminished at will without disturbing the bees. 
Ventilation most thorough our domicils share, 
No one need teach us the worth of fresh air ; 
For we could not live, as we’ve heard people do, 
In close rooms, where no health-giving breeze can pass through. 
THE BEE MOTH. 
Of all the enemies of bees, the bee moth is the most 
formidable. “ They are a paltry-looking, insignificant, 
little gray-haired, pestilent race of wax and-honey- 
eating and bee-destroying rascals.” Yet their depre- 
dations are usually first caused by some disarrangement 
in the bee-family of the hive. Many persons believe, 
and are encouraged in their belief by unprincipled bee- 
hive venders, that the worm enters the hive ; or that 
they have a moth-proof hive. A hive may be cast of iron 
or glass, and yet the moth-miller which produces the 
moth, will enter where a bee does. The moth hatches 
from an egg in or adjacent to the interior of the hive ; 
the eggs are laid by a winged insect, resembling in 
color a sliver from a weather-beaten fence-rail. During 
the day she may be found concealed in the vicinity ot 
hives ; near sun-down she is flying near the entrance, 
and if she gains admittance will at once endeavor to 
find a crevice containing the litter of the hive and de- 
posit a large number of eggs. The litter of the hive 
