. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 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 op
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 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-combs; but most fre- quently one finds it resting on the bark (of the hollow tree), just a few inches from the opening; all those that I ob- tained were collected in such positions. " The Boers have as much horror of the moth as of a snake. They imagine that its proboscis is a poisonous sting, and great was the astonishment of some of them when they saw me touch- ing one of the moths without fear and putting it into my mouth to prove its harmlessness. They were so convinced of its dangerous nature that they thought I wanted to put an end to my life. They were impressed to such an extent, since childhood, with these superstitions that, in spite of all my e'lorts, I was unable to persuade a sin- gle one of them to do what I had ;. The Death's-mkad Moth from Life Weighting the Bee-Veil.—In clipping queens this spring. 1 forgot to put my glasses on and never noticed it until I had a hive open. They were in a case in my vest pocket, and I managed to get them on without removing the veil, dropping the case
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