. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects -- Ontario Periodicals. 46 serve, and stored up against bad weather or a bad season ; these are covered with waxen lids. The pollen is employed as circumstances direct. When the bee laden with it arrives at the hive, she sometimes stops at the entrance, and very leisurely detaches it by piece- meal, devours one or both the pellets on her legs, chewing them with her jaws, and passing them then down the little orifice before noticed. Sometimes she enters the hive, and by a peculiar noise produced by beating her wings she at
. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects -- Ontario Periodicals. 46 serve, and stored up against bad weather or a bad season ; these are covered with waxen lids. The pollen is employed as circumstances direct. When the bee laden with it arrives at the hive, she sometimes stops at the entrance, and very leisurely detaches it by piece- meal, devours one or both the pellets on her legs, chewing them with her jaws, and passing them then down the little orifice before noticed. Sometimes she enters the hive, and by a peculiar noise produced by beating her wings she attracts to her three or four of her companions who relieve her of the supply and devour it. Very much more might be said about bees, especially in regard to such points as their love, anger and hate, their foresight, and the numerous expressed theories as to their possession of more than mere sensation as their guide. Such topics, although very inter- esting, are of a nature too speculative for the present, but those desirous of pursuing the subject in that direction can obtain abundance of literature. We will conclude by describ- ing, in the next two articles, two enemies of the bee, although they are not mem- bers of the Hymenopterous order. It is well known among cultivators that bees-hives are subject to the attacks of large hawkmoths, and even mice are known to enter a hive. Bees are also afflicted by parasites. But by far the worst enemy the bee-keeper has to contend with is— The Bee-moth or Wax {GalUrea cereana] Fabr. {Lepiloptera, Tiaeidc). The following is from Riley's First Annual Report for Missouri:— "This insect is so well known to bee-men generally, that it scarcely needs a descrip- tion. It is well illustrated above (Fig. 10) in all its shapes, a showing the full-grown worm, b the cocoon which it spins, c the chrysalis to which it tt 6* changes, d the female with wings expanded, and e the male moth viewed from the side with the wings closed
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