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tl,e 001111)8, or inserts them in the corners or crevices, 
or iiniong the refuse ivax and bee-bread on the bottom- 
board, where her progeny can be concealed and nourished 
till they are able to reach the combs. 
In Plate XX., Fig. 57 , Mr. Tidd has faithfully de¬ 
lineated, and Mr. Smith skillfully engraved, the black 
mass of tangled webs, cocoons, excrements, and perfo- 
r.ited combs, which may be found in a hive where the 
worms have completed their work ot destruction. 
The entrance of the moth into a hive and the ravages 
committed by her progeny, forcibly illustrate the havoc 
which vice often makes ivhen admitted to prey unchecked 
on the precious treasures of the human heart. Only some 
tiny eggs are deposited by the insidious moth, which give 
birth to very innocent-looking worms ; but let them once 
get the control, and the fragrance* of the honied dome is 
soon corrupted, the hum of happy industry stilled, and 
everything useful and beautiful ruthlessly destroyed. 
The honey-bee is not a native of the New World, 
and, when brought here, was called by the Indians the 
oonscontlvcly, Ilka those of the quoon bee, bnt are found In the ducts, fully and 
perfectly farmed, a few days after tbo female moth emerges fi'om the cocoon. She 
deposits them, usually. In little clusters on the combs. If we wish to witness the 
discharge of tbo eggs. It Is only necessary to seize a female moth, two or three days 
old, with finger and thumb, by the head—she will instantly protrude her ovipo¬ 
sitor, and the eggs may then bo distinctly soon passing along through the semi¬ 
transparent duct. (See Plate XlII., Fig. 40, C.) 
“Last Summer I reared a bee-moth larva in a small box. It spun a cocoon, 
ftoin which issued a fomnlo moth. Holding her by the head, I allowed her to 
deposit eggs on a piece of honey-comb. Three weeks afterwards, 1 examined the 
comb, and found on It some web and two larvoe. The eggs wore all shrivelled and 
dried up, except a few which were perforated, and from which, 1 suppose, the 
larva; emerged. This appears to bo a case of true parthenogenesis in the bee 
uiotb.’’—TVuiMfafsd from Da. Doxiioff by S. Waoneb. 
As among bundreda of 8(iocimcns fnrnisbed to Mr. 'Hdd very few males were 
noticed, I conjectured that the eggs of those females would hatch without impreg¬ 
nation, and look measures to have Dr. Jo.soph Leidy investigate the subject It 
teems, however, that in this matter, onr Gorman brethren have the priority 
• The tdor of the moth and la va; Is very offensive. 
