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BEE-KEEPER'S DICTIONARY. 



Queen-cells. — Large cells in which queens are 



raised. 

 Queening. — The act of introducing a queen into 



a queenless colony of bees. 

 Queenless. — Having no queen. 

 ()ueen-rearing. — Raising queens. 

 Queen Register. — A written history of a queen 



tacked on a hive. 

 Queen's Voice. — A sound made by a queen. See 



Piping. 

 Quinby Frame. — A plain frame without shoulders 



and having closed ends. 18 y> inches long by 



1114 in depth; old style lOi^ by 11 deep. 

 (,)iiinby Hive. — A hive Invented by Mr. Quinby 



based on the hive of Iluber's leaf hive of the 



latter part of the 18th century. 



Quilt. — A cover for brood frames made in the 

 form of a thin cushion. 



Itahhet. — TTsually has reference to a narrow piece 

 of tin folded in a peculiar manner to form 

 a rest for the shoulders of the hanging frames. 



Rendering Wax. — The process of melting combs 

 and refining wax from its Impurities, usually 

 done by means of hot water or steam accom- 

 panied by pressure on the mass of material. 



depository. — An above-ground house resembling a 

 cellar for protecting hives from cold winter 

 weather. Usually erected on a hillside. 



Reversing. — Turning over or inverting a hive 

 with bees to accomplish certain results. 



Ilifie Honey — Honey in which the process of 

 edulcoration by the bees has been completed. 

 See Edulcoration. 



liobbing.- — Pilfering from other hives when flow- 

 ers are scarce. 



Royal Cell. — Queen cell. 



Royal Jelly. — A rich food secreted in the chyle 



stomach of bees and fed only to young queens 



in the larval condition. 

 Scent Orgraji.— Thought to be the antennte of the bee. 

 Sealed Brood.^Capped brood, the young bee is 



not exactly sealed because the capping is 



porous. 

 Section Box. — A sectionally constructed box for 



containing a small honey comb. 



Section Holder. — A device for holding sections 

 while in process of being filled on the hive. 



Separator. — A thin board or piece of tin placed 

 between combs to insure their being very ac- 

 curately made by the bees, particularly section 

 comb honey. 



Sheet. — A piece of enameled cloth for placing 

 over the brood chamber conserving the heat. 



Shook Swarm.- — An artificial swarm made by 

 shaking bees from a very populous colony into 

 a fresh hive. By this means natural swarm- 

 ing is closely imitated. 



Skep. — Generally used in the country to indicate 

 the old fashioned hives without frames. In 

 England it is synonymous with the word hive. 



Skeppist.—An old-fashioncrt bee-keeper. 



Slumgum. — The refuse from a wax extractor. 



Smoker. — A machine for making smoke and 

 puffing it to control bees. 



Solar Wax Extractor. — A glass covered box melt- 

 ing beeswax by the heat of the sun. 



Sottr Brood. —Similar to foul-brnod; almost identical. 

 Spent Queen. — -A mother bee whose ovaries are 



almost or wholly exhausted. 

 yiivrm,ato!:i)on. — One of the germs contained in 



I he semen of drones. 

 ■<liir<i<-le!(. — Air tubes tbrrmgb whirh Ibo life 



lireall.es. 



Spirochcete apis.— Microbe found in foul brood by 



Maasen. 

 Spreading Brood. — The work of transposing 



combs filled with brood and empty ones that 



the queen will be provided with empty cells 



to lay in. 

 Stamens. — Male organ of flowers producing 



pollen. 

 Stigmas.- — Female organs of flowers. 

 Supersede. — A plan the bees have of disposing 



of a decaying queen and substituting a young 



one. 

 Sivarm.- — A natural division of a hive of bees 



into two for the purpose of increase. The old 



queen goes with the first swarm. 

 Swarm Catcher. — A basket on the end of a pole 



designed to catch swarms hanging up in trees. 

 Swarming Season. — The period of the year when 



swarms usually issue in numbers. 

 Syrians.- -Snxne as Holy Land bees, light colored, 



productive and cross. 

 Tarsus. — The foot of a bee. 

 Tested Queen. — A queen whose progeny show she 



has mated with a drone of her own race. 

 Thorax. — The waist of a bee. 



Tiering Up. — Adding supers on the top of a hive. 

 Transferring. — Ordinarily applied to the process 



of changing bees and combs from common 



boxes to movable frame hives. 

 Transformations. — See Metamorphosis. 

 Transposition Process. — Transposing a larva 



from one cell to another with a spoon. 

 Traiel Stain. — A term applied to comb honey 



with a discolored appearance and supposed to 



be caused by the dirty feet of the bees, which 



it is not. 

 Trigona Jiees.^A genus of stingless bees in 



South America and Asia. Some species bite 



furiously. 

 Unqueening. — Remeving the queen of a colony 



of bees. 

 Unripe Honey.- — Honey not sufficiently evaporated 



and formic acid added by the bees. 

 Unsealed Larvw. — Young bees in the worm form 



not yet covered over with a wax capping. 

 Virgin Queen. — An unfecundated queen which 



can lay only drone-producing eggs. 

 Wax. — A secretion produced from certain glands 



or pockets on the under side of the abdomen 



of the bee, a species of fat produced by the 



consumption of honey or any kind of sugar. 



It is estimated bees consume from 6 to 20 lbs. 



of honey in the production of one pound of 



wax, depending on circumstances. Wax Is 



produced by bees quite spontaneously when 



the weather is warm and food abundant. In 



ccol weather it requires much more food to 



produce the wax. 

 Wax Extractor. — An appliance for rendering wax 



by the action of heat and also pressure. 

 Wax Pocket. — The receptacles on the under side 



of the abdomen wherein the bees secret their 



wax. 

 Weaning. — Larvse Intended for workers are 



weaned ; if not, they become queens. 

 Wild Bees. — Escaped or feral bees living in hoi- 

 low trees or in small caves. 

 Windbreaks. — Either specially constructed fences 



or barriers composed of growing trees to re- 

 duce the force of the wind. 

 Wintering. — The care of the bees during winter. 

 Worker Bee. — An undeveloped femnli- lioe. 



dwarfed by withholding stimulating food dur- 

 ing the larval condition. 

 Worker Kgg. — A female egg. will produce either 



ineen or worker. 

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