bee-moth

The bees have another enemy, too, which is always hovering about to find a chance to get into the busy little house; that is the bee-moth.

Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Julia Moody 1919

The bee keeper can easily gather from these remarks, the means upon which I most rely, to protect my colonies from the bee-moth.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

The bee-moth infects our Apiaries, just as weeds take possession of a fertile soil; and the negligent bee-keeper will find a

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

Notwithstanding the large number of patent hives which have been introduced, the ravages of the bee-moth have increased, and success is becoming more and more precarious.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

If this operation is judiciously performed, the bees will be powerful in numbers, long before the weather is warm enough to develop the bee-moth, and they will thus be most effectually protected from the hateful pest.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

This, however, but seldom happens: for they rarely escape from the assaults of other colonies, even if after the death of their queen, they do not fall a prey to the bee-moth.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

If a colony has _lost its queen_, and this loss cannot be supplied, it must, as a matter of course, fall a sacrifice to the bee-moth: and I do not hesitate to assert that by far the larger proportion of colonies which are destroyed by it, are destroyed under precisely such circumstances!

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

If the sides of the hive are of glass, and the corners are run with a melted mixture, three parts rosin, and one part bees-wax, the bees will waste but little time in gathering propolis, and the bee-moth will find but little chance for laying her eggs, even if she should succeed in entering the hive.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

I place very great reliance on the movable blocks which guard the entrance to my hive, to assist colonies in defending themselves against robbing bees, as well as the prowling bee-moth.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852

In the common hives, but little can be done to dislodge the bee-moth, when once it has gained the mastery of the bees; whereas in mine, it can be most effectually rooted out when it has made a lodgment.

Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852