ENEMIES OF BEKS. 
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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 :ui operation will be seldom needed.* 
Shallow vessels of sweetened water, placed on the hives 
after sunset, will often entrap many of the moths. They 
are 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 thcm.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 enemiesj 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 buttled 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. 
“ lie 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 be kept warm by the hoat rising to the top of the hive, and will be 
guarded even iu cool nights. Such an entrance may, In many cases, be found a 
groat 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 
furiously impaired. 
t Devices for burning the moth date back to the times of Columella, who 
recommends placing near the hives, at night, a brazen vessol, with a light burning is 
It, to destroy the moths resorting to It. 
t: Report on Bees, to the Essex County Agiicultural Society, 1S51. 
