MANAGEMENT OP BEES. 45 
They are fed on Pollen, which is used for no other pur- 
pose. 
The drone has a vast number of eyes, but little hair 
on the face, antennce of 13 joints, and a bulky bodv, 
which is thickly covered with hair. Their posterior is 
covered with live scales only, while their wings are 
long, covering the posterior. They have six legs ; 
but have no means of collecting Pollen. Their hind 
legs are large, free from hair, and their feet have each 
two hooks. They have no sting or means of defence ; 
and remain quiet with the colony until about the last of 
August, when a general massacre takes place among 
them. The span of their existence does not exceed 4 
or 5 months. 
The drone passes 3 days in the egg state, 6.J in the 
larva, and makes his appearance at the end of 15 days ; 
making 24 in all. 
And by the use of Stoddard’s Self-protecting hive 
these Drones may all be destroyed in one day, by put- 
ting a clapper on the end of the tube, and hang it by a 
small pin at each end low enough for the working llee 
to go out and in. The Drone passing out, being larger 
will have to croud the clapper out, and when once out 
he cannot return. In the evening you can go out anti 
find them all around the mouth of the hive. Then 
you may destroy them as you please. 
RULE SIXTEENTH. 
Enemies of Bees. 
I suppose that the moth or miller is the most dan- 
gerous enemy of Bees, and destroys more than all 
others combined. It is supposed that this insect mi- 
grated from England about the year 1800, in the vi- 
cinity of Boston ; and has now spread over the coun- 
try. One author ridicules the idea of its being trans- 
ported so far ; but any person acquainted with the 
habits of the moth, can at once discover that there 
are tnany ways in which it might have been transport- 
ed. 
This little insect within a few years has completely 
