INDEX Continued 



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Maxims Continued 



for hiving bees, 72. 



for introducing queens, 163. 



for opening the hive, 104. 



for prevention of bee moth, 176. 



for producers of comb honey, 1 16. 



for the producer of extracted 

 honey, 124. 



for wintering, 154. 



to prevent robbing, 171. 

 McEvoy, William, treatment of 



foul brood, 177. 

 Medics, 201. 

 Mellilots, 205. 

 Metatarsus, 185. 

 Micropyle, 192. 

 Milkweed, 204. 

 Miller, Dr., 102, 162. 

 Mignonette, 203. 

 Motherwort, 204. 

 Mouth parts, 184, Plate XXV. 

 Muscles, 187, Plate XXV. 

 Muth bottles for extracted honey, 

 123. 



Nervous system, 188, Plate XXV. 

 Nucleus, method of introducing 



queen, 162. 

 to begin with, 13. 



Observation hives, 103, opposite 



frontispiece. 

 Ocelli, 183, Plate VI. 

 (Esophagus, 191, Plate XXVI. 

 Out-apiaries, 209. 

 Ovaries, 192, Plate XXVI. 

 Oviduct, 192, Plate XXVI. 

 Oxydendrum arboreum, 199. 



Palpi, 185, Plate XXV. 

 Paraffiste, wax adulterant, 134. 

 Parker foundation fastener, 18. 

 Partnership of bees and plants, 195. 

 Peach, 196. 

 Pear, 196. 

 Pickled brood, 179. 



Piping of queen, 31, 32. 



Planting for honey impractical, 199 



Pliny, 207. 



Plodia interpunctella, 175. 



Plum, 196. 



Plum blossoms, Plate XXIII. 



Points about beeswax, 126. 



Poison glands, 193, Plate XXVI. 



Pollen, 59. 



fed to drone, 37. 



how gathered, 59. 



in cells, 98. 



how placed in cell, 60. 



made into bee bread, 60. 

 Pollen-baskets, 59, 186, Plate VTL 

 Pollen-comb, Plate VII. 

 Porter bee-escape, 12, 18. 

 Propolis, how collected, 62. 



how to dissolve, 63. 



its source, 60, 61. 



made from varnish and cement, 

 61. 



various uses of, 62. 

 Pussy willows, 197. 



Queen, Plate V. 

 armour of, 30, 31.. 

 balling of, 32, 158, 159. 

 cages, 160, 161, Plate XVI. 

 cages, the Miller, 162. 

 capacity for egg laying, 28. 

 cell, 29, Plate V. 

 cell, how to find, 98. 

 cell, how to cut out, 98= 

 clipping wings of, 75. 

 development of, 28. 

 duels, 30, 31. 

 egg, 29- 

 excluder, 78. 

 first flight of, 32. 

 head of, Plate VI. 

 her attendants, 28. 

 how she lays eggs, 33, 34. 

 how to find, 99. 

 how to handle, 99. 

 how to introduce, 160. 



