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trouble before the combs are needed for swarms. Of course, if 
the weather is warm their work will be earlier than when there 
is a cool spring. Moths cannot winter in a house where it 
freezes hard. 
Q. Do bees carry moths while swarming? 
A. I don’t believe that bees ever carry with them the moth, 
its larvae, or its eggs. 
Q. (a) I had two weak colonies which I was going to unite, 
but found a wcavy web on the combs and in them a handful of 
small worms. Those on the comb were about three to the inch in 
length, and not a live bee to be found, and no honey. The worms 
resembled cut worms. 
(b) Is that comb of any use to put in other hives? 
(c) How did the worms get in the hive without the bees de- 
stroying them? 
A. (a) The worms were the larvae of the beemoth. 
(b) Yes, unless too much of it is destroyed. 
(c) Eggs were laid in the hive by the moth, and from these 
eggs worms were hatched. The colony must have been weak and 
like enough queenless. 
Q. I have a lot of honeycombs that I will have to keep 
through the summer months. What is the best remedy to keep 
the moths out of them? I have them packed closely in a chest. 
Will fumigating them with sulphur do, or is bi-sulphide of carbon 
the best? 
A. Sulphur will do, but it takes a gread deal of it to finish the 
big worms, and it does not kill the eggs, so that it must be used 
again two weeks later to kill the worms that have hatched out 
from the eggs that were left. Carbon disulfide (which is the 
later name of bisulphide of carbon) acts more vigorously, and at 
one operation cleans up big and little, eggs and all. After you 
Tiave the worms all killed you must keep the combs where the 
moth cannot get at them. 
On the whole, it is nicer to give such combs to the bees. They 
will clean them up and keep them in nice condition. You can fill 
a hive-body with them and put it under a colony, so that the bees 
must pass through in going out or in. 
Q. I have a number of frames which look very ragged on ac- 
count of moth ravages, some in which more than half of the comb 
is gone. Will the bees repair this and fill out the frames again 
if I give them to the bees next spring? Or would I better cut 
out all this comb and put in new foundation? 
A. If the comb is in good condition except for the ravages 
