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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 



Nursery.— A place in which queens are reared. See 

 Lamp Nursery. 



Nymph. — • See Chrysalis. 



Observatory Hive.— A hive constructed partially of 

 glass, to allow examination of work inside without 

 disturbing bees. 



Overstocking. — Having more bees in one locality 

 than there is pasturage to support. 



Paraffine.—A white, translucent, crystalline, sub- 

 stance, tasteless and inodorous, obtained from the 

 distillation of mineral and vegetable tar. It re- 

 sembles spermaceti. It derives its name from its 

 remarkable resistance to chemical action. — Web- 

 ster. It is sometimes used as a substitute for bees- 

 wax, for coating barrels and other utensils for 

 containing honey. 



Parasite.— A species of lice that live on the body of 

 a bee, 63. 



Parent Stock.— A stock from which a swarm issues. 



Parthenogenesis (or Virgin Breeding.)— The law that 

 life is imparted by the mother independently, and 

 that every egg, as originally developed in the ova- 

 ries, is of the male sex, but whenever fertilized it 

 becomes transformed into a female. 



Pollen.— Fecundating dust of the antheral part of 

 the stamen of flowers, gathered by bees, and when 

 mixed with honey used for food of young bees, 

 sometimes called bee-bread. 



Pollen Basket.— A slight cavity on the outside, just 

 above the second joint, of each of the two hind 

 legs, in which the pollen is carried, 137. 



Propolis.— A resinous substance gathered, probably, 

 from the buds of certain trees, by bees, and used 

 in covering rough places, and cementing and fill- 

 ing cracks about the hive. 



Pupa.— See Chrysalis. 



Q. Frame.— Quinby frame. 



Q. Hive.— Quinby hive. 



Queen.— The only fully developed female in the col- 

 ony; the mother of all the rest. 



Queen Cage. — An enclosure of wire cloth, or of wire 

 cloth and wood, in which to confine a queen for in- 

 troduction or shipping, 38. 



Queen Cells.— Elongated cells, in which queens are 

 reared. 



Queening.— Introducing a queen to a colony. 



Queenless — Having no queen. 



Queen Rearing.— liaising queens, 159. 



Queen Register.— A printed card so arranged as to 

 show at all times the condition of the queen in the 

 hive, on which it is tacked. 



Queen's Voice. — A note frequently uttered by a 

 queen, probably produced by her wings. 



Quilt.— A cover for brood frames made by putting 

 wool or cotton between two pieces of cloth, and 

 sewing them together. 



Quinby Frame.— See Hives. 



Quinby Hive.— See Hives. 



Rabbet.— Lately applied to a strip of folded tin, to 

 be used in any hive where frames are suspended 

 by the top bar, either with or without metal cor- 

 ners, to aid in making frames more movable, and 

 to assist in keeping bees free from the ravages of 

 the bee moth. 



Rendering War- Separating the wax from all for- 

 eign substances by melting and straining. Usually 

 applied to the operation of converting combs into 

 wax. 



Rhomb.— An equilateral parallelogram, having two 

 acute and two obtuse angles; one of the 12 equal 

 sides of a rhombic dodecahedron; one of the loz- 

 enge shaped parts of the bottom of a cell, 110. 



Rhombic Dodecahedron.— A solid having 12 rhomb 

 shaped faces, 110. 



Ripe Honey.— That which has by evaporation be- 

 come sufficiently thick to be sealed in the cell. 



Bobbing.— The act of pilfering stores from another 

 hive, instead of obtaining them in the ordinary 

 way from the fields. It occurs only in time of 

 scarcity of stores, 165. 



Royal Cm.— See Queen Cells. 



Royal Jelly.— Food of queen larvae, 149. 



Sealed Brood.— See Capped Brood. 



Sealed Honey.— See Capped Honey. 



Section Box or Section.- A small box for surplus 

 honey, open on two sides. 



Separator. — A strip or piece, generally of tin, placed 

 between two section boxes, to insure straight comb. 



Sheet. — A covering of single cloth, for brood frames. 



Skep.—A term sometimes applied to any sort of a 

 bee hive. 



Spent Queen.— One that from old age becomes in- 

 competent to lay any eggs, or but -few which pro- 

 duce drones only. 



Sper)iiatozoid (pi. Spermatozoa).— One of the Ani- 

 malcula contained in the generative fluid of drones. 



Spring Dwindling.— Slow decrease in size of stocks, 

 in early spring, 241. 



Starter.— Comb or fdn. fastened in the top of sur- 

 plus boxes, to induce work therein. 



Sting. — A weapon of defense, contained in the pos- 

 terior part of the abdomen of worker bees and 

 queens, composed of 3 parts, two of which are 

 barbed, 192. 



Stock.— See Colony. 



Super.— Any receptacle for surplus comb honey, ap- 

 plied by our friends across the water to any kind 

 of upper story. 



Swarm.— A large number of bees leaving the parent 

 stock at one time, for the purpose of taking up 

 new lodgings, accompanied by one queen in the 

 first swarm, and in afier swarms (see Colonies) by 

 one or more. 



Swarming Season.— The time of year in which bees 

 are most inclined to swarm. 



Taking up Bees.— Killing bees in fall, to get the 

 honey. A practice now going rapidly out of use. 



Tested Queen. — One whose progeny has been exam- 

 ined and found pure, 160. 



Transferring.— Changing bees and combs from one 

 hive to another; changing comb from one frame 

 to another. Usually applied to the operation of 

 changing bees and combs from box hives to hives 

 with movable frames. 



Transposition Process.— See Grafted Cell. 



Unqueening. — Removing queen from a colony. 



Unripeor Green Hoivy. -Honey which has under- 

 gone but little change by evaporation, and con- 

 tained in unsealed cells. 



Virgin Queen— A queen which has not been fertil- 

 ized. 



Wax. — A natural, unctious, secretion of honey bees, 

 formed in delicate scales, in the eight wax pock- 

 ets, on the under side of the abdor. en. It is 

 formed both in activity and in repose, but in much 

 larger quantities while the bees are quietly clus- 

 tered inside the hive. The production of each 

 pound requires about 20 lbs. of honey. It is used 

 by the bees for comb building, 222. 



Wax Extract or. — An apparatus by means of which 

 wax is rendered by application of steam. 



Wax Pockets.— The 8 depositories under the rings 

 on the under side of the 

 abdomen of a worker bee, 

 in which wax scales are 

 secreted. 

 Wax Press.— A device for 

 rendering melted wax by 

 pressure. 

 Wedding Flight.— The flight 

 of a virgin queen, for the 

 purpose of meeting a 

 drone. 



Wild Bees.— A term applied to honey bees, that live 

 in the forest, in hollow trees, or in cavities of 

 rocks, or in other places away from the abodes of 

 men. 



Wind Breaks.— Tight fences or close hedges, to keep 

 winds from the apiary. 



Worker Bee— Erroneously called neuter; an unde- 

 veloped female possessing the germ of nearly 

 every organ of the queen, which may at any time 

 become sufficiently developed to allow her to lay 

 eggs, but only such eggs as produce drones. Does 

 all the work in the hive except laying eggs. 



Worker Egg.— An egg which is impregnated, and is 

 laid only by a fertile queen: will produce either 

 worker or queen. 



WAX POCKETS. 



