520 GLOSSARY. 



Dipping-Board— Board for securing thin wax sheets in making founda- 

 tion, p. 358. 



Dividing — Forming colonies artificially, p. 303. 



Division-Board— Board for reducing the size of the brood-chamber, p. 222. 



Dollar Queens — Queen sold for one dollar, p. 361. 



Driving Bees— Causing the bees to pass out of a hive into a box placed 

 above by rapping on the hive, 258. 



Drone— Male bee, p. 121. 



Drone-Brood — Brood which produces drone-bees, p. 126. 



Drone-Comb— Comb with large cells,in which drones may be reared,p.l83. 



Drone-Eggs— Eggs that produce drones, p. 126. 



Drone-Trap— Trap for catching drones, p. 285. 



Drumming Bees — Forcing bees from one hive to another hive or box by 

 rapping on the first with a stick or hammer, p. 258. 



Dry Feces — Supposed dry excreta of bees. 



Ductus Ejaculatorus— Part of male apparatus, p. 92. 



Dummies — Division-boards, p. 222. 



Dysentery — Winter disease of bees, p. 475. 



Dzierzon Theory— Parthenogenesis ; agamic reproduction ; theory that 

 unfecundated eggs will develop, and in bees such eggs always pro- 

 duce drones, p. 126. 



Egg— The initial or first stage of all the higher animals, pp. 95, 101. 



Egyptian Bee — Yellow bee from Egypt, p. 57. 



Eke — Rim to raise and enlarge the hive; often a half hive. 



Embryo — The young animal while yet in the egg or before birth. 



Entrance— Opening of the hive where the bees enter, p. 217. 



Entrance-Blocks— Pieces of wood, usually triangular, for contracting or 

 closing the entrance of hive, p. 217. 



Entrance-Guard — Perforated zinc to prevent drones or queen from leav- 

 ing the hive, p. 285. 



Epicranium— Part of bead between and above the eyes, p. 66. 



Epipharynx — Part of mouth. 



Extracted Honey — Honey thrown from comb by use of extractor, p. 281. 



Extractor— Machine for extracting, p. 321. 



Exuvium — Cast-skin of larva. Substance left in cell when bee emerges, 

 p. 89. 



Eyes — Organs of sight in insects; there are usually two large compound 

 and three small simple or Ocelli, p. 73. 



Feces — Intestinal excreta of animals. 



Farina — Flour ; incorrectly used for pollen. 



Fecundate — Union of sperm and germ cells; to impregnate, p. 103. 



Feeder — Device for feeding bees, p. 266. 



Femur — Third and largest joint of an insect's legs, p. 78. 



Fence — Separator to be used with plain sections, p. 242. 



Fertile — Productive; often used for impregnated or fecundated. A queen 



that can lay eggs is fertile ; after mating she is fecund. 

 Flagellum — Outer part of antenna, p. 69. 

 Foul Brood— Malignant disease of a fungoid character which attacks 



bees, p. 475. 

 Foundation, Fdn.— Stamped wax sheets, p. 353. 

 Frame— Device for holding comb in the hive, p. 227. 

 Fumigate — To surround with fumes. We fumigate the bees with smoke 



and the combs with sulphur fumes, pp. 380, 487. 



