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THE nONEY-MAKERS. 
the most active measures to prevent a second 
intrusion. If the moth should again appear, he 
would probably find all entrance barred by a 
strong waxen wall built within the doorway of 
the hive, with only space enough left for the 
passage of a single bee. 
The perfect desolation of a hive in which these 
moths have gained a foothold, is truly pitiable. 
Huber, finding great ravages committed among 
his bees by this insect, says he made a grating 
which should admit the bee, but not the moth ; 
and as soon as this was done, the trouble ceased. 
Strange also to say, the bees of other hives not 
so defended formed a similar protection ; nor 
were these all alike, but variously constructed in 
different hives. 
“ Here,” he says, “ was a single wall, whose 
opening arcades were disposed in its higher 
parts ; there were several bulwarks behind each 
other, like the bastions of our citadels ; gateways, 
masked by walls in front, opened on the face of 
the second row, while they did not correspond 
with the apertures of the first. Sometimes a 
series of intersecting arcades permitted free egress 
