570 



INDEX. 



Newman on uses of honey. .525, 526 

 Norton on outdoor wintering. . .360 

 Notch of the fir.st pair of legs. . 24 



Nucleus 269,271 



for artificial swarming.. 251 



how made 271, 273 



" prepared in advance. . .275 



small 281 



" strong 275 



Numbering the hives 176 



Nursing glands of workers. . .15, 16 

 Nurses 68, 69 



Observing hives 184 



for pleasure and 



instruction. . 185 

 in apartments. . .187 



Ocelli of bees 5 



Odor of bees 254, 255 



" of drones 53 



" of foul-brood 476,477 



" of the moth 498 



" of the poison of bees 38 



" of the queen 283, 288 



Oettl, golden rule 556 



" on honey yield 422,423 



" on the language of bees. . 34 



" on statistics 424 



straw hive 136 



Oil cloth 172 



Old age, signs of, in bees 82 



Old and young queens living to- 

 gether 52 



Old bee-keepers venom-proof .. 209 



Olfactory organs 11 



" Girard experi- 



ments on . . 13 

 " lead bees to 



flowers. . 13 



Opening hives 202 



Orphan bees raising queens.... 47 



Otis saw impregnation 55 



Out-apiaries, why 316 



conditions required 



for.. 316 



" how many? 317 



" our terms for 317 



Outer-boxes for wintering 359 



Out of doors wintering 34G 



Ovaries of a drone-laying queen 59 



" of the queen 57 



" of workers 77 



Overbeck, discovery of origin of 



wax. . 99 



Overstocking 420 



opinions on 426 



Packard on the breathing organs 32 

 " instinct of bees 39 



Pain d'epices 527 



Painting hives 176 



" different colors. .306 



Paley on the sting 36 



Palteau hive 135 



Palpi and maxillae 20 



Parafline, melting point of.... 387 



Parsons importation 298 



Parthenogenesis 58, 50 



proven by Ital- 

 ian bees. . 59 

 Pasteur on breeding bacilli ... .475 



on inoculation 209 



Pasturage for bees 397 



Patents 177 



Perforated zinc 89, 240, 441 



Phillips, on the bee-moth 489 



on queen-rearing ....282 



Physiology 1 



Piping of the queen 51,232 



Poison of the sting 38,207 



" sack 35 



Pollen 123 



" baskets 24, 25 



fresh preferred 124 



gathering, useful to plants 



126, 127 



indispensable to bees 123 



" substitutes 125,126 



used when bees make 



combs. . 105 



Portico 163, 353, 360 



Pound, how many bees in one.. 326 



Press, wax 534 



Prevention of afterswarms 241 



moths in combs. 



498, 502 



" robbing 377 



swarming 23 4 



Pridgen, queen-rearing 280 



Production of honey 428 



Propolis 110 



hard in Winter Ill 



how to clean from the 



hands. .112 



from other things 112 



on sections 443 



soils the comb Ill 



uses for bees 111,112 



in commerce 114 



Pulvilli 22, 23 



Queen, age at fecundation 54 



" balled 227,284 



beginning to lay 65 



best conditions to raise. . . 



261, 281 



" cages 283,284,325 



" clipping wings of . . . . 225, 226 

 contents of spermatheca of 50 

 " dejections, licked by work- 

 ers. . 18 



description of 42, 48 



" destitute of nursing glands 16 

 difference in prolificness of 66 



does not govern 41 



duration of development of 



48, 50 

 " " transforma- 



tions of . . 92 



