. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. 272 AUSTRALASIAN countries. Laugstroth, following Linnaeus and Reaumur, speaks of the tinea cereana and tinea mellonella; Cook, following Fabri- cius, calls the bee-moth galleria cereana, and says it belongs to the family of snout-moths, Fyralidm,^ and that " its members are very readily recognised by their usually long palpi, the so-called ; The moth
. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. 272 AUSTRALASIAN countries. Laugstroth, following Linnaeus and Reaumur, speaks of the tinea cereana and tinea mellonella; Cook, following Fabri- cius, calls the bee-moth galleria cereana, and says it belongs to the family of snout-moths, Fyralidm,^ and that " its members are very readily recognised by their usually long palpi, the so-called ; The moth has been found a serious evil in some of the Australian colonies, at least previous to the introduction of the Italian bee. Mr. Fullwood states that the race of black bees was nearly exterminated in Queensland by the moths, but that when Ligurians were imported they soon defended themselves, and obtained the mastery; and Mr. E. Palmer, of New South Wales, says, " The bee-moth is the great scourge of the wild and cultivated bees, and the only serious obstacle to successful bee farming of which I have, during a series of years, had any ; I believe the Australian moth to be identical with the American one. In New Zealand, the moth found in hives is of a smaller species, and is not likely to give much trouble in well-kept hives, TINEA CEREANA. The following description of this moth in America is taken from Dr. Harris's report on the insects of Massachusetts, as quoted in Langstroth's work :—. Fig. 126.—BEE-MOTH (Tinem cereana). " Very few of the tinece exceed or even equal it in size. In its adult state it is a winged moth, or miller, measuiing, from the head to the tip of the closed wing, from five-eighths to three-quarters of an inch m length, and its wings expand from an inch and one-tenth to one inch and four-tenths. The four wingg shut together flatly on the top of the back, slope steeply downwards at the sides, and are turned up at the ends some
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