2084687How to Keep Bees — Index1905Anna Botsford Comstock

INDEX

  • ABC of Bee Culture, 207.
  • Abdomen, 187.
  • After-swarms led by virgin queen, 81.
  • prevention of, 81.
  • reason of and remedy for, 79, 81.
  • Alder, 154.
  • Alfalfa, 201.
  • Alighting board, 15.
  • Alimentary canal, 187, 191, Plates XXV., XXVI.
  • Alley's queen and drone trap, 12.
  • Alsike, 200.
  • Anatomy, external, 181, Plate XXV.
  • internal, 187, Plate XXVI.
  • Antenna cleaner, 186, Plate VIL
  • Antennas, 183, Plate VII.
  • Ants, 27.
  • Apiaries, floating, 209.
  • out, 209.
  • Apiary, high fence for, in city, 23.
  • in village garden, 22.
  • location and arrangement of, 20.
  • mowing the, 23.
  • old-fashioned, Plate XXVII.
  • old orchard good place for, 20.
  • on city house tops, 22.
  • sheep in, 23.
  • windbreak for, 22.
  • Apparatus for extracting, Plate XVIII.
  • Apple, 196.
  • Apple blossoms, Plate XVII.
  • Apricot, 196.
  • Aristotle, 172, 207.
  • Artificial pasturage, 199.

Bacillus alvei, 176.

  • Balling of queen, 32, 158.
  • Basswood, 198.
  • blossoms, frontispiece.
  • Bee, anatomy of, 181.
  • books, 206.
  • brush, Plate III.
  • Brush, Dixie, 19.
  • brush, use of, 101.
  • cellars, for wintering, the Bingham, 151.
  • gloves, 11, 17.
  • glue, its source, 60, 61.
  • glue made from varnish and cement, 61.
  • glue, various uses of, 62.
  • house-keepers, 34.
  • how she gathers pollen, 59.
  • how she collects propolis, 62.
  • ingratitude, 44.
  • journals, 206.
  • moth, 172.
  • moth, development of, 173.
  • moth, how to detect, 173.
  • moth, maxims, 176.
  • moth, remedy for, 174.
  • tent, 102, 168.
  • tree, 214.
  • veil, II, 16.
  • worker, 59.
  • worker, brains of, 40.
  • worker—life and habits of, 42, 43.
  • worker, sex of, 39.
  • Bee-bread, 59.
  • as food, 60.
  • in cells, 98.
  • Bee-escape, Plate III.
  • Porter, 18.
  • Porter, use of, 101.
  • Bee-gum, 83.
  • Bee-hunting, 211.
  • Bee-keepers, 206.
  • books written by, 9.
  • number of, 207.
  • Bee-keepers' supplies, catalogue of, 10.
  • Bee-keeping, 206.
  • a beginner's order, 11.
  • as a regular business, 10.
  • attractive materials of, 85.
  • how to begin, 8.
  • too successful, 73.
  • worst way to begin, 10.
  • Bees, as a recreation, 5.
  • as socialists, 6.
  • a study in natural science, 6.
  • belong to the garden, 7.
  • control population, 34.
  • diseases of, 176.
  • enemies and diseases of, 172.
  • feeding of, 136.
  • German or black, 12, 47.
  • how they collect propolis, 60, 61.
  • how they secrete wax, 52.
  • how to handle them, 91.
  • how to keep from keeping too many, 73.
  • how to manage when swarming, 66.
  • how to reconcile swarm to new hive, 70.
  • how to unite colonies, 82.
  • how to winter, 145.
  • how to work with, 92.
  • hybrids, 48.
  • Italian, 12, 13.
  • Italian and black bees compared, 48.
  • Italian, Mr. Root's test for, 48.
  • keep for sake of honey, 4.
  • keep for sake of money, 4.
  • legends and literature of, 3.
  • races of, 12.
  • races of domestic, 47.
  • reasons why one should keep, 3.
  • relations to plants, 194.
  • robbing, 164.
  • secreting wax, Plate X.
  • sense of smell, 92.
  • swarming of, 64.
  • telling the, 61.
  • watering, 143.
  • when they swarm, 65.
  • why they swarm, 64.
  • wild, 47.
  • Beeswax, adulterated, 126, 134.
  • clarified by vinegar, 128.
  • how to make it, 126.
  • its value, 126.
  • maxims for making, 135.
  • press, 132.
  • primitive method of rendering, 127.
  • refining of, 134.
  • rendered in wash boiler, 129.
  • Beeswax-extractors, 130.
  • Black brood, 179.
  • Blue thistle, 204.
  • Boardman wax extractor, 130, 131.
  • Body wall, 181, Plate XXV.
  • Bonnet, 207.
  • Borage, 204.
  • Bottom board, 83.
  • Box elder in blossom, Plate XXX.
  • Box hives, 83, 208.
  • Brain, 188, Plate XXV.
  • Brimstoning bees, 208.
  • Brood, black, 179.
  • foul, 176.
  • foundation, 17.
  • how to examine, 97.
  • pickled, 179.
  • Brood chamber, 83.
  • how to examine, 95.
  • size of, 14.
  • Brood frame, Langstroth, how much honey it will hold, 146.
  • Brood frames, examining of, Plate XIII.
  • how to lift out, 96.
  • Brushing or shaking-out method to control swarming, 77,
  • Buckwheat, 201.
  • Buckwheat in blossom, Plate XXIX.
  • Cabbage palmetto, 199.
  • Cages, queen, 160, 161.
  • Candy for feeding bees, how to make, 141.
  • Good, 141, 161.
  • Cans for shipping extracted honey in bulk, 123.
  • Carniolan bees, 47.
  • Carton for comb-honey, 106, 113.
  • Catnip, 204.
  • Cell of queen, 29.
  • Cellars for wintering bees, 150.
  • Cerasin, wax adulterant, 134.
  • Chaff hives, 11, 14.
  • Chaff hives for wintering, 148, Plate XXII.
  • Chyle food, 36.
  • how regurgitated, 58.
  • City apiary, 22.
  • Cleome, 204.
  • Clipping wings of queen, 75.
  • Clover, 200.
  • Cogshall, 209.
  • Colonies, how to unite, 82.
  • Colony, queenless, 29.
  • queenless, Mr. Root's method of testing, 159, 160.
  • Comb building, Plate IX.
  • built by many workers, 56.
  • drone, 37.
  • cell caps, construction of, 56.
  • foundation for brood chamber, 85.
  • how to tell honey from brood in capped cells, 97.
  • made without pollen, 50.
  • making, described by A. I. Root, 53.
  • making, Prof. V. L. Kellogg's observation of, 53.
  • mathematics of, 54.
  • placing in extractor, Plate XIX.
  • shape of, not fortuitous, 54.
  • strength of, 56.
  • uncapping of, Plate XIX.
  • Comb-honey and large hives, 77.
  • bee moth in, 174, 175.
  • candied, 115.
  • compared with extracted honey, 106, 124.
  • conditions for production of, 107.
  • grading of, 112.
  • how to keep, 116.
  • how to make, 106.
  • in 8-frame hive, 14.
  • marketing of, 114.
  • maxims for producers of, 116.
  • shipping of, 113.
  • storing of, 115.
  • Combs for extracting, Plate XVIII.
  • Cook, Prof. A. J., method of uniting colonies, 82, 207.
  • observation on bee moth, 172.
  • Coreopsis, 204.
  • Corneil smoker, 11, 16.
  • how to use, 93.
  • Coxa, 185.
  • Crabapple blossoms, Plate XXVIII.
  • Crimson clover, 200.
  • Cuticle, 182, Plate XXV.
  • Cyprians, 47, 210.
  • Daisy foundation fastener, 11, 17.
  • Dandelion, 205.
  • De Geer, 207.
  • Details concerning honey, 106.
  • Development of worker, 40.
  • Diarrhoea, prevention of, 180.
  • Diseases of bees, 176.
  • Division board, what it is, 13.
  • Division board feeder, Plate XII.
  • Dixie bee brush, 12.
  • Doolittle division board feeder, 12.
  • wax-extractor, 130, 131.
  • Drone, the, 34, Plate V.
  • appearance of, 35.
  • cell of, 37, Plate VIII.
  • cells, how capped, 97.
  • cells, size of, 56.
  • comb, 37.
  • death of, 35.
  • eggs in worker cells, 37,
  • flight of, 36.
  • food of, 36.
  • from unfertilised egg, 36.
  • head of, Plate VI.
  • leg of, Plate VII,
  • life-history of, 36.
  • killing of, 38, 39.
  • maturity of, 37.
  • physical characteristics of, 35, 36.
  • reproductive organs of, Plate XXVI.
  • trap, 19, Plate XVI.
  • wedding flight of, 38.
  • Drones, great number of, 38.
  • males, 27.
  • Dzierzon, 207, 208.
  • Egg, 192.
  • queen, 29.
  • tubes, 192, Plate XXVI.
  • Eggs, unfertilised, 33.
  • Egyptian bees, 47.
  • Enemies of bees, 172.
  • Entrance to hive, how to contract, 167.
  • Epilobium angustifolium 204.
  • Eucalyptus, 199.
  • Extracted honey and large hives, 77.
  • candied, 122, Plate XXI.
  • care of, 121.
  • compared with comb-honey, 106, 124.
  • drawing from extractor, Plate XX.
  • hive for, 14.
  • how to bottle or can, 122.
  • how to produce it, 117.
  • in glass jars, Plate XXI.
  • maxims for the producers of, 124.
  • packages for, 123.
  • Extracting room and apparatus, Plate XIII.
  • Extractor, honey, invention of, 117.
  • Extractor, Solar wax, 130.
  • Extractor, wax, 130.
  • Eyes, compound, 183, Plate VI.
  • simple, 183, Plate VI.
  • Fabricius, 207.
  • Feeder, Boardman, 138.
  • Division board, 138.
  • Doolittle, 19.
  • pepper-box, 139.
  • Feeders, Smith, Hedden, Miller, 139.
  • Feeding back, 143.
  • bees, 136.
  • candy, 140.
  • chunk honey, 140.
  • for honey, 142.
  • for winter, 137.
  • how to do it, 138.
  • how to feed inside the hive, 138.
  • how to feed outside the hive, 138.
  • in fall, 136.
  • in spring, 136.
  • maxims for, 144.
  • rye flour, 142.
  • syrup in combs, 140.
  • what to feed, 137.
  • Females of social insects, 27.
  • Fence, Plate III.
  • between sections, 88.
  • Figwort, 204.
  • Fireweed, 204.
  • Flowers of the garden, 203.
  • Food of worker, 40.
  • Foul brood, 176, 179.
  • how to detect, 177.
  • remedy for, 177.
  • Foundation, brood, 17.
  • super, 11.
  • Foundation Comb, 126, Plate XII.
  • for brood chamber, 85.
  • for sections, how to cut, 89.
  • how to place in frame, 85, 86.
  • size of, 86.
  • Foundation-fastener, Daisy, 17.
  • Parker, 18.
  • super, 17.
  • for extracted honey, 119.
  • foundation for, 84.
  • Frames, Hoffman brood, 86.
  • Hoffman self-spacing, 84.
  • Langstroth movable, 84.
  • self-spacing, Plate XII.
  • spacing of, 84.
  • Fruit, not punctured by bees, 196.
  • Fruit trees, 196, 197.
  • Gall-berry, 204.
  • Galleria mellonella, 172.
  • Garden flowers, 203.
  • German bees compared with Italians, 48.
  • German steam wax press, 133.
  • Gill-over-the-ground, 204.
  • Glands, 189.
  • Glands of honey bee, Plate XXV.
  • Goldenrod, 204.
  • Grapes, not punctured by bees, 197.
  • Guagilla, 199.
  • Hatch-Gemmill wax press, 133.
  • Head, 183, Plate XXV.
  • Heart, 188, Plate XXV.
  • Hetherington super springs, 90.
  • Hive, arrangement in apiary, 24.
  • cover, 15, 83.
  • the description of, 14.
  • entrance, how to contract, 167.
  • essential parts of, 83.
  • history of, 83.
  • how to get the cover off, 95.
  • how to handle it, 83.
  • how to lift out the brood frames, 96.
  • how to open, 92.
  • industries of, 50.
  • inhabitants of, 27.
  • Langstroth, 8-frame, 10-frame, 14.
  • maxims for opening, 104.
  • one and one-half story, Plate XV.
  • the reasons why it must be opened, 94.
  • telescope cover, 91.
  • tenement, for wintering, 149,
  • to change the location of, 25.
  • Hive-stand, 15, 24.
  • Hives, chaff, 14, 15.
  • chaff for wintering, 148, Plate XXII.
  • Dadant-Quinby, size of, 77.
  • decoy, 70.
  • devices for carrying into cellar, 152.
  • double-walled, 21.
  • double-walled, cover for, 22.
  • entrance toward south, 25.
  • how to group, 20, 25.
  • large, for extracted honey, 77.
  • large sizes limit swarming, 77,
  • observation, 103.
  • shade boards for, 21.
  • shaded by awning, 21.
  • shaded by thatched roof, 21.
  • shaded by trellis, 21.
  • well shaded, Plate IV.
  • where to put them, 20.
  • Hiving bees, Plate XI.
  • maxims for, 72.
  • Holy Land bees, 47.
  • Honey, the amount produced in the United States, 58.
  • basswood. 198.
  • buckwheat, 202.
  • composition of, 57,
  • flowers, 194.
  • gardens, 199, 204.
  • healthful food, 58.
  • how produced, 57.
  • how to take off in supers, 101.
  • house, 25.
  • not made in the true stomach of the bee, 58.
  • of Hymettus, 204.
  • the only sweet of the ancients, 58.
  • plants, 199.
  • ripened in uncapped cells, 57.
  • ripening of, 120.
  • room, 25.
  • sage, 203.
  • uncapped, 120.
  • uncapping of, 120.
  • unripened for extracting, 119.
  • weeds, 199.
  • when to extract, 119.
  • white clover, 200.
  • Honey-extractor, invention of, 117.
  • principles of construction of, 118.
  • use of, 119.
  • Honey-stomach, 57, 191, Plate XXVI.
  • Horsemint, 204.
  • House top for apiary, 22.
  • How to clip the queen's wings, 100.
  • to examine frames of brood chamber, 95.
  • to find the queen, 99.
  • to find the queen cells, 98.
  • to handle the bees, 91.
  • to introduce a queen, 160, 161.
  • to keep from keeping too many bees, 73.
  • to make comb-honey, 106.
  • to open the hive, 92.
  • to produce extracted honey, 117.
  • to rear queens, 156.
  • to stop robbing, 167.
  • to take off honey in supers, 101.
  • to winter bees, 145.
  • to winter bees in cellars, 150.
  • Hruschka, Major Francesco de, inventor of honey-extractor, 117.
  • Huber, 61, 103, 208.
  • Hutchinson, W. Z., method of treating after-swarms, 81.
  • Hymettus, honey of, 204.
  • Hypodermis, 182, Plate XXV.
  • Indian meal moth, 175.
  • Industries of the hive, 50.
  • Inhabitants of the hive, 27.
  • Introducing the queen, 157,
  • by nucleus method, 162.
  • Interrelation of bees and plants, 194.
  • Intestine, 191, Plate XXVI.
  • Italian bees, 47, 204.
  • Italian worker, description of, 47.
  • Jars for extracted honey, 123.
  • Kellogg, Prof. V. L., 53, 103, 172.
  • Kitchen, how bees rob the, 165.
  • Labium, 184, Plate XXV.
  • Labrum, 184, Plate XXV.
  • Lamarck, 207.
  • Langstroth, 207, 208.
  • Latrielle, 207.
  • Laying worker, 45, 79.
  • Leg, 185.
  • Legs of honey bee, Plate VII.
  • Legumes, 200.
  • Linnaeus, 207.
  • Location of hive, to mark, 25.
  • Locust blossoms, Plate XXXI.
  • Locusts, 197.
  • Males of social insects, 27.
  • Malpighian tubes, 191, Plate XXVI.
  • Malthusian practices of bees, 34.
  • Mandibles, 184, Plate XXV.
  • Manum swarm catcher, 12, 19,
  • Maple, mountain, Plate XXIV.
  • Maples, 154, 197.
  • Marjoram, 203.
  • Marketing comb honey, 114.
  • Mason's cans for extracted honey, 123.
  • Maxillæ; 184, Plate XXV.
  • Maxims for beeswax making, 135.
  • for feeding, 144.
  • for hiving bees, 72.
  • for introducing queens, 163,
  • for opening the hive, 104.
  • for prevention of bee moth, 176.
  • for producers of comb honey, 116.
  • for the producer of extracted honey, 124.
  • for wintering, 154.
  • to prevent robbing, 171.
  • McEvoy, William, treatment of foul brood, 177.
  • Medics, 201.
  • Mellilots, 205.
  • Metatarsus, 185.
  • Micropyle, 192.
  • Milkweed, 204.
  • Miller, Dr., 102, 162.
  • Mignonette, 203.
  • Motherwort, 204.
  • Mouth parts, 184, Plate XXV.
  • Muscles, 187, Plate XXV.
  • Muth bottles for extracted honey, 123.
  • Nervous system, 188, Plate XXV.
  • Nucleus, method of introducing queen, 162.
  • to begin with, 13.
  • Observation hives, 103, opposite frontispiece.
  • Ocelli, 183, Plate VI.
  • Œsophagus, 191, Plate XXVI.
  • Out-apiaries, 209.
  • Ovaries, 192, Plate XXVI.
  • Oviduct, 192, Plate XXVI.
  • Oxydendrum arboreum, 199.
  • Palpi, 185, Plate XXV.
  • Paraffine, wax adulterant, 134.
  • Parker foundation fastener, 18.
  • Partnership of bees and plants, 195.
  • Peach, 196.
  • Pear, 196.
  • Pickled brood, 179,
  • Piping of queen, 31, 32.
  • Planting for honey impractical, 199
  • Pliny, 207.
  • Plodia interpunctella 175.
  • Plum, 196.
  • Plum blossoms, Plate XXIII.
  • Points about beeswax, 126.
  • Poison glands, 193, Plate XXVI.
  • Pollen, 59.
  • fed to drone, 37.
  • how gathered, 59.
  • in cells, 98.
  • how placed in cell, 60.
  • made into bee bread, 60.
  • Pollen-baskets, 59, 186, Plate VII.
  • Pollen-comb, Plate VII.
  • Porter bee-escape, 12, 18.
  • Propolis, how collected, 62.
  • how to dissolve, 63.
  • its source, 60, 61.
  • made from varnish and cement, 61.
  • various uses of, 62.
  • Pussy willows, 197.
  • Queen, Plate V.
  • armour of, 30, 31.
  • balling of, 32, 158, 1 59.
  • cages, 160, 161, Plate XVI.
  • cages, the Miller, 162.
  • capacity for egg laying, 28.
  • cell, 29, Plate V.
  • cell, how to find, 98.
  • cell, how to cut out, 98.
  • clipping wings of, 75.
  • development of, 28.
  • duels, 30, 31.
  • egg, 29.
  • excluder, 78.
  • first flight of, 32.
  • head of, Plate VI.
  • her attendants, 28.
  • how she lays eggs, 33, 34.
  • how to find, 99.
  • how to handle, 99.
  • how to introduce, 160.
  • introducing by nucleus method, 162.
  • introducing cage, Plate V.
  • introducing of, 157.
  • issues from cell, 30.
  • larva, 30.
  • leg of, Plate VII.
  • maxims for introducing, 163.
  • mother of her subjects, 27,
  • piping of, 31, 32.
  • rearing, 156, 157.
  • removed to prevent swarming, 79.
  • reproductive organs of, 30, Plate XXVI.
  • selection of, 27, 28.
  • surrounded by workers, 99.
  • tested, 14.
  • trap, 19, 75, Plate XIV.
  • virgin, leads after-swarms, 79, 80, 81.
  • weapons, 30, 31.
  • wedding flight of, 32.
  • when to introduce, 159.
  • Queen-clipping device, 100.
  • Queen-excluding honey-board, use of, 108.
  • Queenless colony, 29.
  • Queens, development of new, 29.
  • females, 27.
  • Queen's wings, how to clip, 100.
  • Quinby, 207.
  • Rape, 202.
  • Rauchfuss wax-extractor, 130, 131
  • Rearing queens, 156.
  • Reaumur, 207.
  • Red clover, 200.
  • Red maple, 197.
  • Red raspberry, 202.
  • Reproductive organs, 191, Plate XXVI.
  • Respiratory system, 188, Plate XXVI.
  • Robbing, borrowing, 170.
  • fate of the robbed colony, 170.
  • how it is done, 166.
  • how to detect, 167.
  • how to prevent, 102.
  • how to stop, 167, 168, 169.
  • maxims to prevent, 171.
  • the result of, 164.
  • slow, 170.
  • when it is likely to happen, 165.
  • why, 164.
  • Rocky Mountain bee plant, 204.
  • Root, 207.
  • treatment of foul brood, 177.
  • views about smoking bees, 93.
  • Royal jelly, 29.
  • Rye flour for feeding, 142.
  • Sage, white, 203.
  • Sage, black or button, 203.
  • Scrofularia venalis, 204.
  • Section glazed for comb-honey, 106.
  • holder, Plate XTV.
  • holders, 88.
  • of honey, Plate XIV.
  • Section-boxes, 88, Plates II., III., XIV.
  • no bee-way, 88.
  • with bee-ways, 88.
  • Sections, 11, 17.
  • fence between, 88.
  • foundation-comb for, 89.
  • how to put together, 89.
  • how to take off, no.
  • no bee-way, 16.
  • scraping of, 112.
  • stained, 111.
  • unfinished, 110.
  • Sense hairs, Plate VII.
  • Sense organs, 183.
  • Sense pits, Plate VII.
  • Shade for hives, 21.
  • Sheep in apiary, 23.
  • Shipping-cases for comb-honey, 113.
  • Skeleton, 181, 187, Plate XXV.
  • Slumgum, 131.
  • Smell, organs of, 184.
  • Smoking bees, should be done carefully, 93, 94.
  • Smoker, Corneil, 16, Plate II.
  • how to fill and use, 92, 93.
  • Social insects, 27.
  • increase of, 64.
  • Solar wax-extractor, 130, 131.
  • Sour wood, 198.
  • Spanish needle, 204.
  • Spraying fruit blossoms with arsenic, 196.
  • Spermatheca, 192, Plate XXVI.
  • Spermatozoa, 192.
  • Spider flower, 204.
  • Spiracles, 188, Plate XXVI.
  • Spring dwindling, 154.
  • Spur, Plate VII.
  • Spur wire embedder, 86.
  • Stained sections, 111.
  • Sting, 193, Plate XXVI.
  • Stomach, 191. Plate XXVI.
  • Sumach blossoms, Plate XXIV.
  • Storifying, no.
  • Sunflower, 203.
  • Super, 11.
  • boxes, 209.
  • cover, II, 91.
  • description of, 87.
  • filled with section boxes, Plate XV.
  • for comb-honey, 87.
  • for extracted honey, 87.
  • foundation, 17.
  • how to entice bees into, 108.
  • how to prepare, 90.
  • how to prepare and place in hive, 91.
  • partly filled, Plate II.
  • parts of, 87.
  • ready to be filled, Plate XII.
  • springs, 88, 90.
  • Supers, 15, 83.
  • different kinds of, 88.
  • how to take off when filled with honey, 101.
  • Swammerdam, 207,
  • Swarm, how to hive, 66, 68.
  • how to manage in difficult places, 69.
  • how to reconcile to new hive, 70.
  • how to stop, 66.
  • size of 65.
  • throwing dirt at, 67.
  • use, fountain pump with, 67.
  • Mr. West's device for saving, 71.
  • when given off, 65.
  • Swarm-catcher, the Manum, 19.
  • Swarming, conditions that lead to, 65.
  • control by brushing out method, 77.
  • control by extracting honey, 76.
  • control by giving room, 76.
  • control by removing queen, 79.
  • lessened by use of large hives, 77.
  • necessary to produce comb-honey, 75.
  • of bees, 64.
  • owing to queen or workers, 65.
  • Swarms, dividing of, 78.
  • Sweet clover, 205.
  • Swiss wax extractor, 131.
  • Syrian, 47.
  • Syrup, for feeding bees how to make, 137.
  • medicated for foul brood, 177.
  • Taking up bees, 208.
  • Tallow, wax adulterant, 134.
  • Tarsus, 185.
  • Telescope cover, 15.
  • Tenement hives for wintering, 149,
  • Tents for bee-keepers, 102.
  • Termites, 27.
  • Thorax, 185.
  • Thornapple blossoms, Plate XXVIII.
  • Thyme, 230.
  • Tibia, 185.
  • Tiering up, 108.
  • Tin pails for extracted honey, 123.
  • Tinned wire, 12.
  • Tongue, 184, Plate XXV.
  • Tracheæ, 189, Plate XXVI.
  • Trap for queen, 75.
  • Trap, queen and drone, 19.
  • Trees, 196.
  • Trochanter, 185.
  • Turnip, 202.
  • Uncapping, 120.
  • Uncapping cans, the Dadant, 121.
  • Uncapping knife, Bingham, 120.
  • Urinary organs, 191.
  • Vagina, 192.
  • Van Deusen wax -tube fastener, 12, 18, 86.
  • Varnish used as bee glue, 61.
  • Vas deferens, 193, Plate XXVI.
  • Veil, need for, 16.
  • Village garden for apiary, 22.
  • Wasps, 27.
  • Watering bees, 143.
  • Wax, amount of honey required to make, 50.
  • bees hang in curtains to make, 52
  • bees secreting, Plate X.
  • the constituents of, 51.
  • how to make it, 126.
  • made in the fields, 52.
  • made when need for, 52.
  • press, 132, 133.
  • the secretion of, 50.
  • scales, 52.
  • Wax-extractors, 130.
  • Wax-glands, 52, 191, Plate XXVI.
  • Wax-pincers, 186, Plate VII.
  • Wax-plates, 51, Plates VI., XXV.
  • Wax-tube fastener, 18, Plate III.
  • Weeds, 203.
  • When to feed, 136.
  • When to introduce a queen, 159.
  • When to put bees into cellar, 153.
  • White clover, 200.
  • Wild flowers, 203.
  • Willow, 154, 197.
  • Wings, 185.
  • Wintering bees in single-walled hives, 145.
  • diarrhoea, 179.
  • getting ready for, 146.
  • how much food needed for, 146.
  • in cellars, 150.
  • in chaff hives, 148, Plate XXII.
  • in hive boxes, 147.
  • in tenement hives, 149.
  • maxims for, 154.
  • out doors, 147.
  • poor honey for, 147.
  • spring dwindling, 154.
  • when to put bees in the cellar, 153
  • when to take bees out of cellar 153.
  • ways of, 147.
  • Wire embedded by heat, 87.
  • Wire embedder, 86, Plate III.
  • Wire, tinned, 18, 85.
  • Worker, 39, Plate V.
  • cell of, 37, 40, 55.
  • cocoon of, 41.
  • death of, 39.
  • Worker eggs, in drone cells, 37
  • head of, Plate VI.
  • laying, 45, 46.
  • leg of, Plate VII.
  • life and habits of, 42, 43.
  • life-history of, 40, 41.
  • maturity of, 41.
  • moulting of, 41.
  • old age and death of, 44.
  • Workers, labourers, 27.