Manual of the apiary

by Albert John Cook

DISEASE.

The common dysentery—indicated by the bees soiling their hives, as they void their feces within instead of without—which has been so free, of late, to work havoc in our apiaries, is, without doubt, I think, consequent upon wrong management on the part of the apiarist, as already suggested in [Chapter XVII]. As the methods to prevent this have already been sufficiently considered, we pass to the terrible