. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. WORK OF THE IN COMB. BEK MOTH. devil's dariiiug-ncedle, as it is soine- tiines called. The bee-killer (Asil- us) is a two winged fly, which seizes the bee and sucks its fluids. A Ta- chhia fly has the reputation of laying- its eggs in the Ijodies of bees occasionally. Large spiders rarely entangle bees in their nets. Ants sometimes depredate on bees. These, how- ever, may be provided against, as may mice, toads, and the king bird. The worst enemy to bees is the moth, which, if a swarm is not s
. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. WORK OF THE IN COMB. BEK MOTH. devil's dariiiug-ncedle, as it is soine- tiines called. The bee-killer (Asil- us) is a two winged fly, which seizes the bee and sucks its fluids. A Ta- chhia fly has the reputation of laying- its eggs in the Ijodies of bees occasionally. Large spiders rarely entangle bees in their nets. Ants sometimes depredate on bees. These, how- ever, may be provided against, as may mice, toads, and the king bird. The worst enemy to bees is the moth, which, if a swarm is not strong, will soon ruin it entirely with the webs and larvte. The moth lays its eggs in the minutest crack, and the young find their way into the hive, where they soon destroy the swarm by filling everything w^ith their webs, as they progress. Their manner of working is shown in the cut en- titled "work of the larva; in ;' XII. Foul Brood. This fungous disease of bees, once it gets a foothold in an apiary, gen- erally c'urries destruction with it. It is quite contagious ; Schonfeld, of Germany, not only infected the healthy larviB of bees Avith the germ, but other insects also. The symptoms are a steady decline in the colony; the brood becomes brown and salvy, and gives off a bad smell like that of putrefaction. Tiie spores are in the honey and the bees eating this and feeding it to the young brood, infect them. A remedy said to be suc- cessful in eradicating the disease is as follows : 8 Gniiiis siilii-ylie acid, S Grains soda borax, 1 ()iuicp r:iiii water. Or in this propoi-tiou for llic ([uantity needed. Uncap all the brood and llirow tiie solution oxei- the comb witii a spraying machine. Xni. Conclusion. Tiiosc who wish to go into l)ee-kceping extensively nuist educate them- selves l)y means of books written particularly on the subject of bees in all. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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