Archive image from page 48 of A key to successful bee-keeping. A key to successful bee-keeping: being a treatise on the most profitable method of managing bees, including the author's new system of artificial swarming .. CUbiodiversity1264180 Year: 1862 ( 25.—Female. 26.—Male. 27.—Moth Gallery. Fig. 23 is a frame. F, plan view of top bar. F, cylin- der for winter passage. The figures give the dimensions. Fig. 24 is the moth worm ; Figs. 25 and 26 the winged moth, or miller ; and Fig. 27, section of moth gallery. The female is somewhat lorger than the male. She entors the hive at night and

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Archive image from page 48 of A key to successful bee-keeping. A key to successful bee-keeping: being a treatise on the most profitable method of managing bees, including the author's new system of artificial swarming .. CUbiodiversity1264180 Year: 1862 ( 25.—Female. 26.—Male. 27.—Moth Gallery. Fig. 23 is a frame. F, plan view of top bar. F, cylin- der for winter passage. The figures give the dimensions. Fig. 24 is the moth worm ; Figs. 25 and 26 the winged moth, or miller ; and Fig. 27, section of moth gallery. The female is somewhat lorger than the male. She entors the hive at night and deposits her eggs, preferring to

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