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If the worms, by any means, get the ascendancy in 
movable-comb hives, the frames should be removed, 
(p. 243), and the worms destroyed. If proper care has 
been exercised, such an operation will be seldom needed.* 
Shallow vessels of sweetened water, placed on the hives 
after sunset, will often entrap many of the moths. They 
arc so fond of sweets, that I have caught them sticking 
fast to pieces of moist sugar candy. Whey and sour 
milk are said to destroy them.f 
I shall close what I have to say upon the bee-moth, 
with an extract from that accomplished scholar, and 
well-known enthusiast in bee-culture, Henry K. Oliver, 
of Massachusetts : 
“ The ravages of all the other enemies J of the bee are 
but a baby bite to the destruction caused by the bee- 
moth. They are a paltry-looking, insignificant little gray- 
haired pestilent race of wax-and-honey-eating and bee- 
destroying rascals, that have baffled all contrivances that 
ingenuity has devised to conquer or destroy them. 
“ Your committee would be very glad to be able to 
suggest any effectual means by which to assist the honey- 
bee and its friends against the inroads of this foe, whose 
desolating ravages are more despondingly referred to 
than those of any other enemy. 
“ He who shall be successful in devising the means of 
ridding the bee-world of this destructive and merciless 
pest, will richly deserve to be crowned ‘ King Bee,’ in 
use this, it will bo kept warm by the boat rising to the top of tho hive, and will bo 
guarded even in cool nights. Such an entrance may, in many cases, bo found a 
great protection against the moth. 
* Old combs are much the most liable to suffer from the moth. In movable- 
comb hives, no combs need remain so long in the hive as to have their value 
seriously impaired. 
t Devices for burning the moth date back to the times of Columella, who 
recommends placing near the hives, at night, a brazen vessel, with a light burning in 
It, to destroy the moths resorting to it. 
X lieport on Bees, to the Essex County Agricultural Society, 1S51. 
