ENEMIES OF BEES. 
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the combs, or inserts them in the corners or crevices, 
or among the refuse wax and bee-broad 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¬ 
rated combs, which may be found in a hive where the 
worms have completed their work of destruction. 
The entrance of the moth into a hive and the ravages 
committed by her progeny, forcibly illustrate the havoc 
which vice often makes when 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 
consecutively, like those of the queen bee, but are found in the ducts, fully and 
perfectly formed, a few days after the female moth emerges from the cocoon. She 
deposits them, usually, in little clusters on the combs. If we wish to witness the 
discharge of the 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 tho eggs may then bo distinctly seen passing along through the semi¬ 
transparent duct. (See Plate XIII., Fig. 46, C.) 
“Last Summer I reared a boo-moth larva in a small box. It spun a cocoon, 
from which issued a female moth. Holding her by the bead, I allowed her to 
deposit eggs on a piece of honey-comb. Three weoks afterwards, I examined tho 
comb, and found on it some web and two larva}. The eggs were all shrivelled and 
dried up, except a few which were perforated, and from which, I suppose, the 
larvre emerged. This appears to bo a case of true parthenogenesis in the bee 
moth .”—Translated from Da. Ponhoff by 8. Waoner. 
As among hundreds of specimens furnished to Mr. Tidd very few males were 
noticed, I conjectured that the eggs of those females would hatch without impreg¬ 
nation, and took measures to have Dr. Joseph Leidy investigate tho subject 14 
seems, however, that in this matter, our German brethren have tho priority 
• The cdor of tho moth and la vib Is very offensive. 
