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Tearing the'Bee to Pieces, he cats the Entrails, 
Fear drops the reft, i 
Frequently have I found’ “li: emits 
“at the Door, when no fooner: doth the 
spoor innocent ‘Bee appear to ‘enquire what 
gave the Alarm, but fhe is feized, and*be- 
“comes ~ his Prey. ‘The fame Enemy often 
“feizes them when abroad. Shoot them, or 
it Traps for them. 
~The Houfe-Lark, a little Daw Bird-with 
i black Bill, in Summer Time is the Death 
vof many Bees; the watches near the: Hives 
vor Colonies, feizing them as they  fettle, 
and many Times in Flight, and carries 
‘them. to -her Young. ‘This Bird builds her 
_Neft in the Wall of an Houfe, where iT 
have often found it, and deftroyed both 
Old and Young together. | 
» “The Swallow’ likewife feeds: her Gait 
~with Bees, as I have’ found by Dificction ; 
: if poflible deftroy their Nefts. 
‘The Sparrows do them little or no’ Pre- 
ojudier; only feeding themfelves or their Young, 
with the white Maggots, or the aniipe 
se er ae caft out-of the Hive, oo) | 
~The Moth is not the» leaft Enemy 
“to Bees: Concealing ‘herfelf, the lays her 
Eggs, which by the Heat in» the Hive 
turn ‘to Worms or Maggots; fecreted at 
firft in the Skirts of the Hive (which 
ought to be ftopped with Lime cand 
‘Hair ;) but afterwards getting into the 
Combs, 
