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possible, knowing that the warmth of the swarm will 
assist incubation, and to have the young larva in the 
immediate vicinity of the proper food to develop and 
mature the worm ; wax or bee-comb being its most 
desirable food. Its presence may be detected in common 
hives by gently lifting up the hive, and the bottom 
board will be covered with their excrements, appearing 
like little pellets, much resembling ground coffee. The 
miller usually deposits its eggs in small cracks, crevices, 
&c., between the bottom of the hives, if they are the old- 
fashioned kind, and the bee-stands, and in the accumu- 
lation of filth on the bottom boards of hives where small 
stocks are kept that are unable to keep the hive clean, 
and in every possible place where it can gain an 
entrance. Here the Compound and Glass Hive is supe- 
rior to every other hive, as it has tight bottom boards, 
and it is impossible for the miller to get in except at the 
entrance, and this is always, or ought to be, contracted 
quite small, to prevent robbery at the season of the year 
when the moth miller is the most plenty. The eggs are 
white, small and round and would hardly be observed 
amongst the filth of the hive. Many suppose the bees 
frequently carry these little eggs on their feet or legs 
into the different parts of the hive. I have no doubt 
this may be the case many times, although it is some- 
thing I have never seen. The anther dust of flowers 
will frequently adhere to bees in such quantities as to 
produce an apparent discoloration of the bee. Upon a 
close examination, it will be found the bee is covered 
with fine, short bristles, that, as they come in contact 
with the pollen, swept it from the surfaces of flowers 
and adheres to them ; and were the bee to come in 
contact with the minute eggs of the miller, the theory is 
