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of the moth, it’s good property, and it is well worth your while to 
keep it to give the bees again. Something, however, depends 
upon how the bees fill out the vacancies in the combs. If they 
fill them up with drone-comb you might better melt up the combs 
I r iG. 5. What remains of a comb devastated by beemoth. 
and give foundation. If given to a strong colony in a flourishing 
condition you can count on a lot of drone-comb; if given to a nu- 
cleus, or to a swarm when first hived, you may count on worker- 
comb. 
Q. If I brush the bees from my section honey and put it in 
folding cartons, such as are listed in supply catalogs, right in the 
bee-yard, will I be bothered with the beemoth in my honey, and 
will this not save trouble in fumigating? Of course, this honey 
will be well sealed before putting in cartons. 
A. No, you can’t trust to anything of the kind. Years ago, 
if I took off sections and kept them where no moth could touch 
them, within two weeks tiny worms would appear here and there. 
The only way I could understand it was that the moth must have 
gotten inside the hive and laid the eggs on the sections. Of late 
years I have no trouble of the kind, probably because of the 
Italian blood. With black bees I had a good deal of trouble, and 
fumigated with sulphur. Carbon disulfide may be better. 
Bee-Paralysis.— Q. Two of my colonics arc killing what 
