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does not have the desired effect. It not only fails 
to prevent the moth, but interferes with the course 
of nature : it' interferes with the course of nature 
in preventing the bees swarming ; and it fails to 
prevent the destruction by worms, from the fact, 
that persons cannpt always stand in readiness to 
brush out the worms, when the bees shall have 
thrown them down, before they have time to as- 
cend into the top of the hive among the combs. 
Some use the single plane suspended below the 
hive by means of wires, (and this plan is secured 
by patent ;) this plan operates also against nature, 
besides it is not so good a conductor of filth, as 
the double plane, from the fact that it has double 
the distance to move after reaching the plane ; 
and cannot consistently be made with the same 
descent. It operates against nature from the fact 
that every bee that alights upon the plane, is again 
obliged to fly to enter the hive, instead of crawl, 
as it is natural for them to do. Bees, after alight- 
ing upon the suspended plane, traverse for some 
length of time, before attempting to fly to the 
comb, and this is done every time they return to 
the hive, which is proof conclusive that nature has 
designed that they should travel, instead of fly, to 
their comb ; this operates worse upon the bees in 
the first part of the season, during the months of 
March and April, when the bees go abroad in 
search of pollen. On returning to the hive, fre- 
quently partially benumbed, they wander about 
the plane in search of some place to crawl to the 
combs, and finally perish for the want of strength 
to fly, and this too at a season of the year when 
their numbers are most wanted to produce animal 
heat sufficient to propagate the young. 
The moth enters the hive during the night, and 
deposits its eggs. 
