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A Theatre of Political Flying Insetfs.Another time of robbing is in the spring, and then those poor

•Id stocks that escaped in Autumn must bee circfuHy watched,poor swarm* also shall now bee tried, until the year grows up,and the flowers bee plentiful.

Let all such have (as 1 ordered before) very narrow doors;swarms are more difficultly prevailed against then old stocks;for though perhaps they have not wrought down to the board, 'and so the entrance be more easy, yet being usually more mul-titudinous, they will hold out longer: whereas old stocks al-though they have more provision, yet have fewer louldiets,andtherefore are quickly overcome and plundered, and more easilyin the spring then before. \

Orce, if you perceive, that wafpes in multitudes, or robbing ,Bees have made a breach into an old stock,delay no longer,buttake them, for although by your circumspect care in stoppingthem up, and narrowing their entrance, you may prevent theirprcseit destruction, yet will they net escape in the spring: butif it bee a swarm,there is some hope, that by your care, youmay prevent their present and suture destruction.

CHAP. XX.

Of Bees, Enemies and. Sicknesses,

LI Common-wealths are infested with enemies, and the

il Common- wealth of Bees as much as any other. Weehave already spoken of the worst, namely Bee*.

In the next place let us treat of Mice, which are also veryhurtful and deductive. Sometimes they get in ac the door,whenit is !efc too Lrge and open, sometimes they make theirway through the Hive , most commonly near the crown of it,and they are no sooner in, but they presently (hare down theCombs, and eat the honey; and it they be kt alone, will oftenmake their nests among the Combs. To prevent them, beecarefuH of the door; of en, especially in the winter, view yourHives. If j ou fee any crumbles of wax at the door, bee forethere is something amiss,look therefore warily, and keep trapsbaited about ^our stalls.

Wasps*

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