. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Vol. LVI.—No. 12 HAMILTON, ILL, DECEMBER, 1916 MONTHLY, $ A YEAR HABITS OF THE WAXMOTH Facts About the Pest Which is Most Feared by the Beginner and Most Easily Controlled by the Expert Beekeeper How often it happens that the thing which we most fear when viewed from a distance proves to be the source of little anxiety on closer ac- quaintance ! It is just so with the wax- moth. It seems to be the pest which is most feared by the beginner and the novice, and which is most easily con- trolled by the expert beekeeper. In the four years which the wri
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Vol. LVI.—No. 12 HAMILTON, ILL, DECEMBER, 1916 MONTHLY, $ A YEAR HABITS OF THE WAXMOTH Facts About the Pest Which is Most Feared by the Beginner and Most Easily Controlled by the Expert Beekeeper How often it happens that the thing which we most fear when viewed from a distance proves to be the source of little anxiety on closer ac- quaintance ! It is just so with the wax- moth. It seems to be the pest which is most feared by the beginner and the novice, and which is most easily con- trolled by the expert beekeeper. In the four years which the writer has spent as a bee-inspector, he has visited doz- ens of apiaries where the bees receive no attention further than- to put on supers in spring and to remove them in the fall. Such apiaries are subject to all the vicissitudes of short stores, queenlessness, disease, poor wintering, and the hundred other things that may befall neglected bees. When the bees die from any cause, the waxmoth enters the hive, as a matter of course, and shortly the combs are destroyed. The unfortunate owner then charges all his loss to the moth. Time and time again has the writer been told of losses from this cause, often the last colony having been removed, disgracing its careless owner, who is entirely un- worthy to be called a beekeeper. The presence of waxmoths indicates one of two things, either carelessness or ignorance on the part of the bee- keeper. The best beekeepers at times find moths in a weak colony which has been overlooked in the rush of the season, or possibly in a super of ex- tracting combs which have remained unprotected for too long a time. This can be charged to carelessness. The novice often fails to recognize the symptoms of queenlessness, disease or other abnormal conditions until the colony has become weakened to the point where the moths take possession, hence he lays all the trouble to the moths, when the moths are an indica- tion of some disorder which was pres- ent p
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