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stroy the eombs so that no future swarm 
will find these old hives a suitable abiding- 
place. It is right here that the moth mil¬ 
ler proves to be a blessing in disguise. 
These old combs smeared with foul-brood 
scales would, unless destroyed by some 
agency, attract swarms; for experience 
Cluster of bee-moth larva? photographed exact size. 
—Texas Agricultural Bulletin No. 158. 
has shown that they are frequently occu¬ 
pied by stray swarms. The bees get nicely 
started in housekeeping, begin to fill the 
combs with honey and brood, when lo! bee 
Web and cocoons in the center of a brood-frame. 
—Texas Agricultural Bulletin No. 158. 
disease begins to make its appearance. The 
colony dwindles, of course, dies in the win¬ 
ter, and is again the source of infection to 
the neighboring bees. They rob it out once 
more; but if there are moth millers in the 
locality they soon destroy these old combs 
and leave in their place a mass of webs 
that is so repellent that no swarm of bees 
will make a home there. Said one of our 
Ohio bee inspectors, “The moth miller, 
after all, may be a friend to the progressive 
beekeeper in that it destroys one great 
source of infection—old diseased combs 
and ‘gums’ in his neighborhood that 
might otherwise remain in bee-trees and 
old hives for years and years, and for 
years and years spread the disease.” 
One of the most thoro treatises on the 
wax moth or wax worm is a bulletin issued 
by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, No. 158, June, 1913. Among other 
things it discusses the life-history of the 
bee moth or wax worm. The author, E. B. 
Paddock, made a very exhaustive study of 
the larger species, Galleria mellonella. As 
