ENEMIES OF BEES. 
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rough lodgment. When the stock is weak, and ap- 
pearances indicate the presence of many, it is gene- 
rally the safest, and will be the least trouble in the 
end, to drivexiut the bees at once and secure the honey 
and wax. The bees when put into a new hive may 
do a little, but if they should do nothing, it would be 
no worse. It cannot be as bad any way as to have 
left them in the old hive till the worms had destroyed 
all and matured a thousand or two moths in addition 
to those otherwise produced, thereby multiplying the 
chances of damage to other stocks a thousand-fold. It 
is probably remembered that I said when bees are 
removed from a hive in warm weather, if it was not 
infested with worms at the time, it soon would be, 
unless smoked with sulphur. 
WHEN THEY GROW LARGER THAN USUAL. 
In a hive thus left without bees to interfere, the 
worms will increase to one-half or two-thirds larger 
than where their right to the combs is disputed. In 
one case they often have their growth, and actually 
wind up in their cocoon when less than an inch in 
length: in the other they will quietly fatten till they 
are an inch and a half long and as large as a pipe-stem. 
TIME OF GROWTH. 
When first hatched from the egg, it requires very 
close inspection to see them with the naked eye. The 
rapidity of growth depends' on the temperature in 
which they are, as much or more than their good 
living. A few days in hot weather might develop the 
