Nebraska advertiser., 1862-05-15

bic stock cannot be strengthened so as
to protect its empty combs, they may
be taken away until the bees are nu-
merous enough to need them.
IF the bee-moth we're so constituted
as to require but 3 small amount of
heat for its full Development, il would
become exceedingly numerous early
II the Spring. and might easily enter
the hives and deposit its eggs where
it pleases; for at this season, not only
is there no guard maintained by the
bees at night, but large portions Of
their comb are quite unprotected.-
How does every fact in the history Of
the bee, when properly investigated,
point with unerring certainty to the
wisdom Of Him who made it!y $50
Combs having no brood, may be
smoked with the fumes of burning sui
phur, to kill the eggs or worms Of the
moth. If kept from the bees, they.
should be carefully protected, in dry
place, from the moth, and examined
occasionally, to be smoked again if
any warns are found. siSI IS
In1s5* = byE *a5a = y 25.g'
The most fruitful cause Of the raw.
ages Of the moth still remains to be
described. If q colony becomes queen
less, itmust, unless otherwise destroy
ed, inevitably fall a prey to the bee
moth. BY watching, in glass hives,
the proceedings Of colonies purposely
made queenless, / have ascertained
that they make little or no resistance
to her entrance, and allow her to lay
her eggs where she pleases.H I The
worms, after Matching, appear to have
their own way, and are even more at
home than the dispirited bees.*
How worthless, then, to o queen
less colony, are all the traps and other
devices which, of late years, have been
so much relied upon, Any passage
which admits bee is large enough
for the moth, and if single female
enters such a hive, she win lay eggs
enough to destroy it, however strong.
Under allow estimate, she would lay
at least, two hundred eggs in the hive,
and the second generation would count
By thousands, while those of the third
Twill exceed D million.
Not only do the bees Of ahopelesss
lly queenless hive make no effectual
opposition to the bee-moth, but, by
their forlorn condition, they positively
invite their attacks. She appears to
have aninstinctive knowledge of their
condition, and no art of man cane
keep her out. She will pass by other
colonies to get at a qusenless one, as
if aware that she viii find it in the
hest conditions for the development
Of her young and thus the strongest
colonies, after losing their queens, are
frequently devoured by the worms,
while some small ones, standing by
their side, escape unharmed 111a 35a
It is certain that a queenless hive
seldom maintains a guard at the en-
trance, and does not fill the air with
the pleasant voice of happy industry.
Eden to our dull ears, the difference
between the hum of prosperous hive
and the uahappy note of a despairing
one, is often sufficiently obvious; may
it not be even more so to the acute
senses of the provident mother,moth?"
1880 $50 1i H9 b'sdli l9aoeg 81 oo
*The fact that quosnlsss stocks DO not oppose an
efectual resistance to the moths or Eoms--a fact
which once thought 10 be discovery Of my own
has for long time been we'll known 10 the GeFmans
AF. Wagner informs me "that their best trsatises,
for many years, speak Of this as q settled fact, so
that 1t has become axiom that, II colony Is over
powered By rObber bees lis owner is not entitled to
compensation il was in all likelihood, qusenIess,
and would certainly have been destroyed BY the
moth. aSunzfuF
Ny attention has been recently called 10 en- aFti.
Gle in the Ohio Caltigztor for Is49, page 1885, by
Mcaiah i. johnson, in which, after detailing some
experiments, he says:-'0ne thing is certain-if
bees, from any cause should loss thsiF queen, aLd
not have the meansinr their power of raising ano-
ther, the miller and the worms soon take possession.
bsieve no hive is destroyed by worns while An
efficient qnoeh remains in IT, I DsfI9gKa eGE 81
This seems 70 be the earliest pubIished notice Of
thisimportant fact By an American observer.
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