INDEX. 



Adobe, for hives, 831 (note 2). 



Advantages required in complete hives, 

 95-108? 



Adventure, amusing, in search of honey, 

 254. 



After-swarming, 120 ; causes and indi- 

 cations of, 121 ; easily prevented in 

 mov. comb hives, 124, 140; evils of, 

 140 ; author's mode of obviating evils 

 of, before invention of mov. comb 

 hive, 140 (note) ; excessive, exposes 

 stock to bee-moth, 248. 



After-swarms, easily strengthened in 

 mov. comb hives, 140; when to ex- 

 pect, 122; often issue in bad weather, 

 122; often have more than one queen, 

 122; seriously reduce strength of 

 parent-stocks, 124, 140; wise arrange- 

 ment concerning, 124 ; easily prevent- 

 ed in inov. comb hive, 124 ; weak, of 

 little value, 140, 141 ; returning of, to 

 parent-stock, or doubling, unprofit- 

 able, 140; make few drone-cells the 

 first season, 184 (note). 



Age, of bees, 58; queen-bee, 49; of 

 workers, proved from Italian bee, 59 

 (note) ; signs of old, 59 ; of colonies, 

 59 ; of queens, designated by the clip- 

 pings of their wings, 223. 



Air, necessary for bees, 88 ; bees need in 

 Winter, 89, 838; pure, necessary for 

 'eggs, brood, and bees, 89 ; pure, neces- 

 sary for health of man, 91 ; abundance 

 of, supplied by mov. comb hive, 94; 

 new swarms require more than old, 

 281; cold, alarms bees, 811 (note); 

 how to give in Winter, to mov. comb 

 hives, 838. 



Air-tight stoves, deficient in ventilation, 



Alighting-board, should shelter from 

 wind and wet, 103 ; improved, by at- 

 taching muslin, 279 (note): PL V., 

 Figs. 16,17. 



Alsike, or Swedish white clover, 294; 

 value of, for bees and stock, 295. 



American women, their sufferings from 

 bad ventilation, 92. 



Analysis of royal jelly, 64. 



387 



Anger of bees, 308-814 ; difficult to re- 

 press, when once aroused, 170 ; excit- 

 ed by the human breath, quick mo- 

 tions, or jarring, 170 ; and sometimes 

 by smoke, 168 (note) ; should not be 

 violently repelled, 170 ; occasioned by 

 disease, 25(5 (note); never necessary 

 to provoke a colony to, 809; when 

 provoked to, terribly vindictive, 810 ; 

 of dyspeptic bees, troublesome, 810 ; 

 bee-hat a protection from, 310 ; But- 

 ler's directions how to prevent the 

 rising of, 311 ; warm breath provokes, 

 811 (note 2) ; when excited, how to 

 act, 811 ; never excited away from 

 home, 812; excited by disagreeable 

 odors, and uncleanly persons, 818 ; 

 aroused by a smell of the bee-poison, 

 814; and by rough and hairy substan- 

 ces, 317. 



Ants, white, their fecundity, 82 ; some- 

 times injure bees, 255; small, harm- 

 less, 265 (note); extravagantly fond 

 of honey, 237. 



Aphides, singular mode of propagation 

 of, 42; description of, 285; cause of 

 honey-dew, 285. 



Apiarians, see Bee-Keepers. 



Apiaries, must be closely watched in 

 swarming-season, 148 ; large, rendered 

 difficult by natural swarming, 145; 

 danger of crowded, 214 ; stocking, &c., 

 279-284; in establishing, a knowledge 

 of the honey resources of the locality 

 important, 279 (and note 1) ; should be 

 protected from high winds, and from 

 cattle, and sweaty horses, 279 (note 

 2); should be in sight of occupied 

 rooms, 279 ; proper exposure for, 279 ; 

 covered, objectionable, 280; shaded, 

 agreeable to bees, 280; location of, 

 how to change, 280 ; procuring bees 

 for, 280 ; to secure bees in their hives, 

 for removal to, 281 ; precautions to be 

 observed in moving hives to, 281; 

 transferring bees from common to 

 mov. comb hive, for, 282 ; large, in 

 Europe, 300 ; should be fenced ag'ainst 

 cattle and horses, 813. 



Apple-tree, yields much honey, 292. 



Apricot-tree, honey-yielding, 292. 



