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INDEX. Continued 



Tongue, 184, Plate XXV. 

 Tracheae, 189, Plate XXVI. 

 Trap for queen, 75. 

 Trap, queen and drone, 19. 

 Trees, 196. 

 Trochanter, 185. 

 Turnip, 202. 



Uncapping, 120. 



Uncapping cans, the Dadant, 121. 

 Uncapping knife, Bingham, 120. 

 Urinary organs, 191. 



Vagina, 192. 



Van Deusen wax - tube fastener, 



12, 18, 86. 



Varnish used as bee glue, 61. 

 Vas deferens, 193, Plate XXVI. 

 Veil, need for, 16. 

 Village garden for apiary, 22. 



Wasps, 27. 

 Watering bees, 143. 

 Wax, amount of honey required to 

 make, 50. 



bees hang in curtains to make, 52 



bees secreting, Plate X. 



the constituents of, 51. 



how to make it, 126. 



made in the fields, 52. 



made when need for, 52. 



press, 132, 133. 



the secretion of, 50. 



scales, 52. 



Wax-extractors, 130. 

 Wax-glands, 52, 191, Plate XXVT. 

 Wax-pincers, 186, Plate VII. 

 Wax-plates, 51, Plates VI., XXV. 

 Wax-tube fastener, 18, Plate III. 

 Weeds, 203. 

 When to feed, 136. 



When to introduce a queen, 159. 

 When to put bees into cellar, 153. 

 White clover, 200. 

 Wild flowers, 203. 

 Willow, 154, 197. 

 Wings, 185. 



Wintering bees in single - walled 

 hives, 145. 



diarrhoea, 179. 



getting ready for, 146. 



how much food needed for, 146. 



in cellars, 150. 



in chaff hives, 148, Plate XXII. 



in hive boxes, 147. 



in tenement hives, 149. 



maxims for, 154. 



out doors, 147. 



poor honey for, 147. 



spring dwindling, 154. 



when to put bees in the cellar, 1 53. 



when to take bees out of cellar 



'53- 



ways of, 147. 



Wire embedded by heat, 87. 

 Wire embedder, 86, Plate III. 

 Wire, tinned, 18, 85. 

 Worker, 39, Plate V. 



cell of, 37, 40, 55. 



cocoon of, 41. 



death of, 39. 

 Worker eggs, in drone cells, 37. 



head of, Plate VI. 



laying* 45> 46. 



leg of, Plate VII. 



life and habits of, 42, 43. 



life-history of, 40, 41. 



maturity of, 41. 



moulting of, 41. 



old age and death of, 44, 

 Workers, labourers, 27. 



