MillerThousand AnswersBeekeepingQuestions.pdf - BioBees

16 DR. MILLER Sof the moth, it's good property, and it is well worth your while tokeep it to give the bees again. Something, however, dependsupon how the bees fill out the vacancies in the combs. If theyfill, them up with drone-comb you might better melt up the combsFig. 5. What remains of a comb devastated by beemoth.and give foundation. If given to a strong colony in a flourishingcondition you can count on a lot of drone-comb ; if given to a nucleus,or to a swarm when first hived, you may count on workercomb.Q. If I brush the bees from my section honey and put it infolding cartons, such as are listed in supply catalogs, right in thebee-yard, will I be bothered with the beemoth in ray honey, andwill this not save trouble in fumigating? Of course, this honeywill be well sealed before putting in cartons.A. No, you can't trust to anything of the kind. Years ago,if I took off sections and kept them where no moth could touchthem, within two weeks tiny worms would appear here and there.The only way I could understand it was that the moth must havegotten inside the hive and laid the eggs on the sections. Of lateyears I have no trouble of the kind, probably because of theItalian blood. With black bees I had a good deal of trouble, andfumigated with sulphur. Carbon disulfide may be better.Bee-Paralysis.—Q. Two of my colonies are killing what