BEE-KEEPER'S DICTIONAEY. 



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Honey Bee. — Apia mellifica. 



Honey-Board.— A board of elats or perforated metal 

 placed between the brood-chamber and the boney- 

 cliamber to break the continuity of the two. 



Honey Box. — A box for comb honey, closed on 

 all sides, and provided with holes to allow the 

 bees access. Almost obsolete. 



lUincy-comh.- — A wall of double cells of wax, in 

 most cases about an inch in thickness. Empty 

 comb is % inch thick, and capped nearly an 

 inch. There are 56 cells in one square inch, 

 28 on each side for worker comb. Drone comb 

 has 32 cells to the inch, 16 on a side. One 

 cell is opposite to three others (in part). 



Honey-dew. — A sweet liquid similar to the nec- 

 tar of flowers deposited on the leaves and 

 branches of plants. It is of two kinds. One 

 is the production of plant lice and the other 

 exudes from around the axils of leaves and 

 flowers. 



Honey Extractor. — A machine for throwing the 

 honey from combs by centrifugal force. 



Honey Oate. — An iron faucet used for drawing 

 of thick liquids from barrels or other recep- 

 tacles. 



Honey-house. — A small building for the purpose 

 of honey extraction, storage, etc. 



Honey Knife. — A double-edged steel knife with a 

 bent handle for shaving off the capping of 

 coDibs. 



House Apiary. — A double-walled building used 

 for the protection of bee hives from the ex- 

 tremes of heat and cold. 



Hybrids. — Usually used by beekeepers to desig- 

 nate a cross between the common black bee 

 and the Italian. 



Hymettus. — A mountain district of Greece 

 famous for its wild thyme honey celebrated 

 in classic poetry and history. 



Imago.— T\w fully developed bee or other insect. 



I ntroducing. — The manner In which a strange 

 queen may be introduced to a colony of bees 

 in the stead of a former one to which they 

 were much attached. It is usually performed 

 by hanging the queen in a cage in the midst of 

 the strange bees several days until she ac- 

 quires the odor of the hive. 



I ntroducino Cage. — A small box of wire and 

 wood. See Introducing, in the body of the work 



Inversion. — A process of turning a hive upside 

 down to compel the bees to attach their combs 

 to the bottom bar, also to remove honey from 

 brood frames into the supers. 



Italian Bee.- — Originally from the Italian part of 

 Switzerland, but now bred in this country in 

 a manner to produce a new variety superior 

 to the original. 



ItaUanizing. — Converting an apiary from a race 

 of bees to the Italian variety exclusively. 

 Done by changing the queens. 



Jumbo Frame. — 17% Inches long, 11^4 inches In 

 depth. 



Lamp Nursery. — A kind of hot water incubator 

 for bees where queens or cells are placed till 

 wanted. 



Langstroth Frame. — 17% inches long by 9i^ 

 inches depth. 



Ijongstroth Hive. — Any hive having frames hang- 

 ■ ing by shoulders with a bee space all round 

 tliem is an L. hive. 



L. Frame. — A frame of the size first introduced 

 by Langstroth. 



L. Hive. — A hive provided with frames of the 

 Langstroth dimensions. 



Larca (pluraWai-rce or /aryr(8). A bee in the worm 

 state, unsealed brood. 



Laying Worker. — A worker bee which has ac- 

 quired the power of laying eggs ; as these have 

 not been impregnated by a drone the eirgs laid 

 produce none but drones. 



Ligiirian Hee. — Italian bee. named tdi- the dis- 

 trict in which the best Italian bees are found. 



Lininq Bees. — Watching the direction of their 

 flight. 



Loose Frames. — Loose hanging Langstrotb frames 

 which are spaced by the eye. 



Mal-d6-May.—A peculiar disease of bees occurring 

 mostly in May. As yet it is confined to Europe. 



Mandibles. — The jaws of the bee working like 

 a pair of pliers, but sldewlse, not up and down, 

 as with ourselves. 



May-pest.— Same as Mal-de-May. 



Melipona Bees.— A genus of stingless bees in- 

 habiting South and Central America, compris- 

 ing at least 50 species, some domesticated. 



Mel Extractor. — Former name of the honey ex- 

 tractor. 



Metal Corner. — Corners for frames on which Is 

 the support for the same, used because the 

 bees do not propolize them. 



Movable Frame. — A loose comb frame which can 

 be removed completely from the hive for the 

 purpose of examination or use. A Langstroth 

 frame. 



Mummy Brood.— An European bee disease. 



Natural Sxoarm. — A swarm of bees issuing spon- 

 taneously from the mother hive. 



Nectaries. — The parts of a flower wherein is 

 secreted the nectar. 



Neuter. — A name sometimes applied to worker 

 bees. 



Non-swarming Hive. — A hive so constructed as 

 to control the desire to swarm. 



Nucleus. — A small hive of bees used for various 

 purposes, plural nuclei. 



Nurse Bees. — Young bees less than 14 days old. 



Observatory Hive. — A hive largely of glass to 

 allow of the bees being observed at work. 



Ocelli. — The three single eyes of the bee. 



Overstocking. — A condition reached when there 

 are too many bees for a given locality. 



Parafpne. — A white translucent substance some- 

 what resembling beeswax, derived from mineral 

 oil and sold very largely In the form of can- 

 dles. It Is used by beekeepers to render honey 

 barrels tight. 



Par(Mife.— There are several parasites of bees, 

 the principal being Braula coeca. 



Parent Stock. — The mother of a swarm. 



Parthenogenesis. — The law that only the female 

 eggs require fecundation or fertilization by 

 the semen of the drone, stored in the sperma- 

 theca of the queen. A virgin queen produces 

 drones only. 



Perforated Zinc. — Zinc sheet metal having oblong 

 holes 1-6 of an inch in width to allow worker 

 bees alone to pass, and excluding queens and 

 drones. 



Pickle Brood.— ~A mild contagious disease of bees 

 affecting the brood. 



Piping. — A quakking noise made by young queens 

 — a note of defiance. 



Pistil. — The female organs of a flower collec- 

 tively. 



Plain Sections.— Comh honey sections with no 

 insets or scalloped edges. 



Pollen. — The fecundating element in flowers 

 gathered by the bees in the form of a sticky 

 flour kneaded into pellets deposited on their 

 legs. 



Pollen Basket.- — A cavity on the hind legs of the 

 bee wherein is deposited the pollen gathered 

 from flowers. 



Proboscis. — The trunk of a bee in which Is the 

 tongue or pump. 



Propolis. — A kind of glue or resin collected by 

 the bees and chiefly used to close up cracks 

 and small spaces. 



Pupa. — The stage of the bee before becoming a 

 perfect insect, a chrysalis. 



Quahking. — Noise made by young queens In an- 

 swer to e.nch other. 



Quern. — A fully developed female bee capable of 

 being the sole mother of a swarm of bees. 

 The mother bee. 



Queen Cage. — A small box of wire and wond In 

 which queens are held prisoners. 



