. The bee-keeper's guide; or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. 506 THB beb-kbbper's guidb ; As the solitary wasps are too few in numbers to do much damage—even if they ever do any—any great damage which may occur would doubtless come from the social paper-makers. In this case, we have only to find the nests and apply the torch, or hold the muzzle of a shot-gun to the nest and shoot. This should be done at nightfall, when the wasps have all gathered home. Let us not forget that the wasps do much good, and so not practice wholesale slaughter unless we have strong evi- dence against them. A BEB-MITB.
. The bee-keeper's guide; or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. 506 THB beb-kbbper's guidb ; As the solitary wasps are too few in numbers to do much damage—even if they ever do any—any great damage which may occur would doubtless come from the social paper-makers. In this case, we have only to find the nests and apply the torch, or hold the muzzle of a shot-gun to the nest and shoot. This should be done at nightfall, when the wasps have all gathered home. Let us not forget that the wasps do much good, and so not practice wholesale slaughter unless we have strong evi- dence against them. A BEB-MITB. It has long been known to chicken fanciers that our poul- try often suffer serious injury from a small mite. These little arachnids often enter houses in countless thousands, much to the annoyance of the owners. Kerosene may be used to repel them. Other mites attack the cow, the horse, the sheep, etc. Fig. Mite.—Original. The Texas cattle-tick—Boophalus bovis—which so often wor- ries horses and cattle, and which carries the minute protozoan (Pyrosoma bigeminura) that causes the terrible Texas fever, is a colossal mite. One spring a lady bee-keeper of Connecticut discovered these mites in her hives while investigating to learn the cause of their rapid depletion. She had noticed that the colonies were greatly reduced in number of bees, and upon close obser- vation she found that the diseased or failing colonies were. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. , George W. York & company
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