524 GI,0SSARY. 



Phenol — Pure carbolic acid, p. 479. 



PiDcers— Wax jaws of hind legs, p. 153. 



Piping of Queens— Noise made by young queens when one has emerged 



from cell and others have not, p. 168. 

 Plain Sections— Sections with no inset or bee-way ; the edges are straight, 



p. 241. 

 Planta— Soles or bottom of feet, p. 150. 

 Poison-Sac— Sac at base of sting to hold the poison, p. 157. 

 Pollen — Male cell or element of flowers ; bee-bread. 

 Pollen-Basketr-Corbicula ; cavity on posterior leg for carrying pollen, 



p. 186. 

 Pollen -Ctombs— Rows of hairs on first tarsus of second and third pairs of 



legs of worker, on the inside, also pecten, p. 153. 

 Pollen-Hairs— Compound or webbed hairs of bees, used for collecting 



pollen, p. 79. 

 Portico^Porch to hive, p. 210. 

 Pound Section— Section 4)^ inches square, p. 242. 

 Prime Swarm — First swarm. 

 Prize Section— Section 6i^ by 5)^ inches, p. 242. 

 Propolis— Bee-glue. 



Propolize — To cover with propolis, p. 190. 

 Prothorax- First joint of thorax, p. 78. 

 Prune— To cut out undesirable comb, as drone or old. 

 Pufl-Ball — A large fungus, which, when pressed, sends out myriads of 



spores; it is sometimes used to subdue bees. 

 Pulvilli — Adhesive disks on the last joint of an insect's leg, p. 150. 

 Pupa— Third stage of insects, that between larva and imago ; also called 



nymph, p. 99. 

 Pygidium — Last joint of abdomen. 



Queen — Mother-bee, p. 102. 



Queen-Cage — Cage for introducing queen, p. 312. 



Queen-Cell — Cell in which queen is reared, pp. 100, 111. 



Queenless — Having no queen. 



Queen-Rearing — Rearing of queens, p. 273. 



Queen Register — Card to show state of hive as to queen, p. 291. 



Queen's Voice — Noise made by queen like piping; true voice, p. 168. 



Queen-Yard— Box with perforated zinc, to keep a clipped queen from 



being lost when she comes ou t with a swarm ; also called queen-trap. 

 Quilt — Cover for brood-framee, consisting of two cloths containing wool 



or cotton sewed together, p. 223. 

 Quinby Hive — Large fluber style of hive, p. 235. 

 Quinby Frame— Large frame 18X by 113^ inches, p. 227. 

 Quincunx — Where things in rows alternate, thus, . • . • . 



Rabbet— Where one side of the edge of a board is planed down for a short 

 distance, p. 216. 



Race — Breed. Where a variety has been closely bred so long as to trans- 

 mit its peculiarities to its offspring. Race is a natural breed, p. 52. 



Rack — Crate or case ; section-rack. 



Rectal Glands — Glands in the rectum, p. 146. 



Rectum — Large intestine, p. 146. 



Rendering Wax — Melting and cleaning wax, 367. 



Reversing — Inverting; turning bottom up, pp. 229, 339. 



Rhomb — Four equal sided figure, two of whose opposite angles are equal 

 and acute, the others equal and obtuse. 



