ENEMIES OF BEES. 
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more effectual than the slaughter of hundreds at a later 
period.* If the common hives are used, the^worms will 
usually be found where the hive rests upon the bottom- 
board. Such hives should be propped up on both ends 
with strips of wood, about three-eighths of an inch thick, 
and a piece of woolen-rag put between the bottom-board 
and the back of the hive. The full-grown worm retreat¬ 
ing to this warm hiding-place to spin its cocoon, may be 
easily caught, and effectually dealt with. Only provide 
some hollow', easily accessible to the worms when they 
wish to spin, and to yourself w'hen you want them, and 
as bees in good condition will not permit them to spin 
among the combs, you can easily entrap them. If the 
hive has lost its queen, and the worms have gained pos¬ 
session of it, break it up, instead of reserving it as a 
moth-breeder, to infest your Apiary. 
In the movable-comb hive, blocks of a peculiar con¬ 
struction (Plates in., VI., Figs. 11, 17) are used, both to 
entrap the worms and exclude the moth. The only place 
where she can get into these hives, is at the bee-entrance, 
and as abundant ventilation can be given, independent of 
this, it may be contracted to suit all possible emergencies, 
• Few, who have not soon their rsvagos by llBing out a comb, are aware bow 
mony young boos fall a prey to the worm as It burrows iu the oomb. 
Mr. M. Quiuby, of St .lohusvllle, Now York, whoso commou-senso treatise on 
• The Myeteriee of Bee-Keeping" will richly repay perusal, is of opinion that the 
larger number of imperfect bees carried out of the hive in the Spring, have been 
destroyed by the worma Ue thinks that enough are often thus lost from a single 
blvo to make a modorato swarm of bees. 
This ostlmato will not seem extravagant, If w© take into account the number of 
breeding cells which are destroyed, and tho largo vacancies which are often made 
by the bees In cutting out tho wobs and cocoons of the moth. 
Dr. Kirtland, In an article In the Ohio Farmer., Dec. 1857, alluding to the times 
before tho advent of tho bee-moth, says; “ In those halcyon days of bee-raising, 
Bwurins often came out earlier, and in larger numbers, than in recent times. It 
'vas no unusual occurrence for a Spring swarm to fill the hive with stores and 
young brood so rapidly, as to allow It, also, to throw off a swarm sufflolontly early 
for tho latter ti» lay up stores for Winter.” 
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