518 GI,OSSARY. 



Bee-Gum— Section of hollow tree used as a bee-hive. 



Bee-Hat — Hat 60 arranged as to prevent bees from stinging the face, p. 344. 



Bee-Hawk — Dragon fly, p. 497. 



Bee-Hive — Box for bees. See bee-gum and skep, p. 207. 



Bee-House — House where bees are kept, where bee-work is done, or bees 



wintered, p. 468. 

 Bee-Keeper — One who keeps bees ; apiarist. 



Bee-Line — Straight line, like the route of bee from field to hive, p. 262. 

 Bee-Louse — Braula Coeca, p. 499. 

 Bee-Martin — King or bee bird, p. 508. 

 Bee-Master — English, bee-keeper. 

 Bee-Moth — Galleria mellonellaj formerly G. cereana, moth that feeds on 



wax, etc., p. 482. 

 Bee-Pasturage — Honey-plants, p. 389. 



Bee-Plants — Plants which secrete nectar, and so are visited by bees, p. 389. 

 Bee-Space — Space that will just allow a bee to pass: it is three-sixteenths 



of an inch. A double bee-space, three-eighths of an inch minus, is 



the space that bees do not fill with brace-combs or glue. 

 Beeswax — Secretion of the bee from which comb is fashioned, p. 176. 

 Bee-Tent — Tent covering hive and bee-keeper, pp. 332, 351. In England, 



tent for lectures on bees. 

 Bee-tree— A hollow tree in which bees breed and store, p. 262. 

 Bee-Veil — Veil for protecting face while working with bees, p. 344. 

 Bell-Glass — Glass vessel used for surplus comb-honey storing. 

 Bingham-Knife— Uncapping knife with beveled edge, p. 325. 

 Bingham-Smoker — Bee-smoker with open draft, p. 348. 

 Bisulphide of Carbon — Valuable insecticide, pp. 380, 487. 

 Black Bee— Common or German race of bees, p. 52. 

 Black Brood— Diseased brood, but not foul brood, p. 482. 

 Bottom-Board— Floor of hive, pp. 215, 217, 226. 

 Box-Hive— Plain box in which bees are kept, p. 207. 

 Box-Honey — Comb honey stored in boxes. 

 Brace-Combs — Incorrectly called " burr-combs." Small columns of wax 



connecting brood-combs, p. 219. 

 Brain— Nerve mass in head of insects, p. 82. 

 Breed — Race ; Italian breed, p. 53. 

 Breeding-In— Close breeding, as when a queen is fecundated by one of 



her own drones. 

 Bridal Trip- Flight of queen to meet drone, p. 112. 

 Brimstoning— Killing bees with sulphur. Now happily obsolete, pp. 380, 



487. 

 Brimstone— Fumigation with sulphur fumes, pp. 380, 487. 

 Broad-Frame— Wide frame for holding sections, p. 244. 

 Brood— Immature bees, or bees yet in the cell, p. 98. 

 Brood-Comb— Comb used for breeding, p. 179. 

 Brood-Nest- Space in hive used for breeding. 

 Brood-Rearing— Rearing of brood. 



Brown Bee — A supposed variety of the common black bee, p. 52. 

 Bumble-Bee— Our large wild bee or humble-bee, p. 40. 

 Burr-Combs- Small pieces of wax built above the top-bars of the frames, 



p. 219. 



Candied Honey— Honey crystallized or granulated, p. 175. 

 Cane Sugar— Common sugar, or the sugar of nectar, p. 17' 

 Cap— Box to shut over top of a hive, p. 220. 



