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- Maxims—Continued
- 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.
