. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 21, 1903.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 203 bee-keeping appliances; my objection is to the way that Mr. Lamb endeavours to compel —as it were—every one else to adopt his own ideas, and in his abuse of the 41 by 4i section quite ignoring the disadvantages of the tall section. — Wm. Loyeday, BatfieJd Heath, Barlow, May 18. UNKNOWN ^ IN CAPPINGS OF HONEY-COMB. [5118.] In answer to my request for speci- mens of cappings affected by these larvae in the British Bee Journal of August 28 last year, a bee-keeper residing in Surrey was good eno
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 21, 1903.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 203 bee-keeping appliances; my objection is to the way that Mr. Lamb endeavours to compel —as it were—every one else to adopt his own ideas, and in his abuse of the 41 by 4i section quite ignoring the disadvantages of the tall section. — Wm. Loyeday, BatfieJd Heath, Barlow, May 18. UNKNOWN ^ IN CAPPINGS OF HONEY-COMB. [5118.] In answer to my request for speci- mens of cappings affected by these larvae in the British Bee Journal of August 28 last year, a bee-keeper residing in Surrey was good enough to send me some which showed the characteristic tunnels of the pest so well that I took a photograph of them, which I now have the pleasure to enclose. A and B are pieces of cap- ping seen from the under sidi. C and D show the outer side. The tunnels are really on the under side of the cap- pings. From the outside the comb has merely the appearance of being covered with small crack', whicb are often not easily detected except on close inspection. The speci- mens are slightly magnified—the outlines of the hexagonal cells, which are just visible, will show to what extent. I have chosen the present time for bringing this subject forward because it is about this season of the year (or a little later) that the pest begins to make its tunnels in the cip- pings of honey-combs, and it was in some specimens forwarded to me at this time of the year that I found the minute larvae in these tunnels. Later on the pest appears to leave the combs, and in the specimens from Surrey here illustrated—which were sent to me in September—although the tunnels were very numerous, no trace of the larvte could then be found. It appears that the larvae commence to tunnel the cappings while the combs are still inside the hive, and if bee- keepers will kindly forward to me (by post) some specimens of the cappings when they are first seen to be affected, I shall be very greatly obliged, as I
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