MANAGING BEES. 
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of, and at the same time render their cultiva- 
tion most profitable to their owner. By con- 
structing windows of glass, on every side of 
the hive, nearly the size of its sides, and 
darkening them by closing doors on the out- 
side of the windows, which may be opened 
at pleasure, I have been able to discover 
many important facts, both in relation to the 
nature and economy of the bee, and its ene- 
my the moth ; but, probably, much yet re- 
mains to be learned concerning both. 
The moth, when first discovered by the 
common observer, is a white worm or maggot, 
with a redish crusted head, and varies in size 
according to its living. Those which have 
full and unmolested access to the contents of 
a hive, will frequently grow as large as a 
tuikey-quill, and an inch and a half in length. 
Others are scarcely an inch in length when 
full grown. ' They have sixteen short legs, 
and taper each way from the centre of their 
bodies. 
The worms, like the silk-worm, wind them- 
selves into a cocoon, and pass the dormant 
(chrysalis) state of their existence, and in a 
