. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 19irj American Hee Journal be called robbing among bumblebees. I hope through your courtesy it may be possible to collect a number of specimens from various parts of the country or world should that be possi- ble. I assure you that your inlerest in this investigation will be greatly appre- ciated. B. N. G.\TEs. Departmentof Entomology, Amherst, Mass. -^ Death's-Head Moth.—In our "Notes from Abroad " for April, the readers saw a description and a woodcut of this insect. We did not then know that a kind European friend, M, Pierre Odier,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 19irj American Hee Journal be called robbing among bumblebees. I hope through your courtesy it may be possible to collect a number of specimens from various parts of the country or world should that be possi- ble. I assure you that your inlerest in this investigation will be greatly appre- ciated. B. N. G.\TEs. Departmentof Entomology, Amherst, Mass. -^ Death's-Head Moth.—In our "Notes from Abroad " for April, the readers saw a description and a woodcut of this insect. We did not then know that a kind European friend, M, Pierre Odier, of Celigny, near Geneva, had gone to the trouble of securing for us some photographs of this wonderful insect, which photos were then on the way from Switzerland to us. We have also since found among our voluminous correspondence from Mr. Langstroth, a letter concerning this in- sect and the braces which the bees build against it and other intruders. We give a facsimile of his letter. We also add a quotation from the South African Bee Journal on the same sub- THE DEATH'S-HEAD MOTH (Photographed from life) especially the ' koper kapel' of the colonists. "It is to these snakes alone that one should attribute all of the accidents of which the Boers still like to accuse the harmless Atropos sphinx (moth), death's head, that they call the groot ^L '^uujf(l^ Vci„ Uxopi<A- f^^^e4^ c/ l<^^ JL^I^^ uAtc^ OJ ^€jc£jt^ OtAU oJLMSj' Hc*^ OUAy-j iU-ue^ Uj^ ij^ JU^1~J- /t^^ ^ *< 4^ -LC -^JLi,' d^ IL. idru CM 2t// ^ ciu^ d^-Jr. 7. " When the nest (bee-nest) is in a hollow tree, with only a narrow open- ing, one should avoid thrusting the arm into it to remove the honey, if one does not wish to run the risk of a sud- den death or, at the very least, of ter- rible suffering—different species of venomous snakes hide there readily, honingbije. This sphinx, more abun- dant in southern Africa than in I'^u- rope, loves honey and dares to go even on the honey-com
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