396 



tionofthe bee, 275 (and note 2) ; re- 

 tains the flavor of the blossoms from 

 whence it is taken, 275; evaporation 

 produces the principal change in, 276 

 (and note 1) ; " making over " honey 

 not profitable, 276 ; recipe for artifi- 

 cial, 276 (note) ; a vegetable product, 

 285 ; qualities of, vary, 287 ; hurtful 

 qualities cured by boiling, 287 (and 

 note) ; should not be exposed to low 

 temperature, 287 ; old, more whole- 

 some than new, 287 ; virtues ascribed 

 to it by old writers, 287 (note) ; to 

 drain from the comb, 288, 366; to 

 make liquid when candied, 288 ; cau- 

 tion as to West India, 288 (note) ; of 

 Hymettus, 293 (note); yield of, affect- 

 ed by soil, 294 (note) ; from the rasp- 

 berry, delicious, 296; yield of, by 

 plants uncertain, 296 (note 2); large 

 amount gathered in a day, 303; on 

 the hands, protects them against bee- 

 stings, 817 ; bees eat less in Winter, 

 when kept quiet, 835, 348, 358 ; how 

 to get, in centre of hive, for Winter," 

 886 ; candied, bees need water to dis- 

 solve, 842-44. 

 Honey-bag, worker's, 56 (PL XVIL, Fig. 



Honey bees, see Bees. 



Honey-board, spare, holes in, left open 

 in Winter, 838; sometimes strongly 

 glued by bees, 172 (note); care in 

 placing necessary, 173. 



Honey-dews, 285 ; of California, 285 

 (note) ; when most abundant and 

 where found, 286. 



Honey-hornets, Mexican, 58 (note), 87. 



Honey-resources, how to increase, 293. 



Honey-suckle, juice of, a remedy for 

 bee-stings, 315. 



Honey, surplus, much, incompatible 

 with rapid multiplication, of stocks, 

 176, 178; best yield of, from undis- 

 turbed stocks, 180 ; receptacles for, 

 when to admit bees to, 288, 364 ; how 

 secured, 289 ; quantity from one stock, 



289 (note 2) ; large boxes more profit- 

 able than small, for, 289 (and note 2), 



290 (note 1) ; glass vessels and small 

 boxes, for, 290, air-tight boxes, to 



E reserve, 290 (note 2) ; receptacles of, 

 ow and when to remove them, 291, 

 865 ; boxes for, bees reluctant to fill, 

 late in the season, 366. 

 Honey-water, objectionable for subdu- 

 ing bees, 169 (note). 

 Hornets, fecundation of, 35 ; Mexican, 



hone 



y, 58 (note), 87; inju 

 ld be destroyed in 



re fruit, 86; 



should be destroyed in Spring, 87 ; 



torpid in Winter, 109. 

 Horses sweaty, very offensive to bees, 



279, 313. 

 Horticulturists, honey-bees their 



friends, 85, 87. 



Houses, ventilation of, neglected, 91. 

 Huber, Francis, tribute to, 82-34; dis- 



covered how queens are impregnated, 

 84 ; that unfecundated queens pro- 

 duce only drones, 86 ; experiments of, 

 to test tlie secretion of wax, 69 ; to 

 show the use of pollen, 80 ; his dis- 

 covery of ventilation by bees, 88 ; his 

 supposition as to development in 

 queen of male eggs, 128 (note) ; his 

 plan for artificial swarming and its 

 objections, 148 ; effect of his leaf hive 

 in pacifying bees, 163 ; his mistake as 

 to the cause, 169 ; an inconvenience 

 of his hive, 171 (note); his description 

 of workers, 192 (note 2) ; his curious 

 experiments showing a distinction 

 among them, 198 (note) ; his tribute 

 to Burnens, 194 (note) ; his account of 

 the treatment by bees of strange 

 queens, 200 ; his trial of two queens 

 in a hive, 207 (note) ; splendid discov- 

 eries of, formerly ridiculed, 211. 



Humble-bee robbed by honey-bees, 262. 



Hunger impairs fertility of queen-bee, 

 223 (note 1). 



Hunt, Kev. T. P., his mode of securing 

 swarms, 132. 



Hunter, I)r., discovers pollen in the 

 stomach of bees, 80. 



Hurting bees, important to avoid, 95. 



Hyginus, on feeding bees, 267 (note). 



I. 



n-bees, 34-43 ; re- 

 remarkable law 

 of, in aphides, 42 ; takes place in the 

 air, 50, 320 ; act of, fatal to drone, 125, 

 126 (note); Shrimplin's experiment 

 illustrative of, 127. 



Italian honey-bees, 41 ; singular result 

 of crossing with common drones, 41, 

 324(note2); used to showadivi.-iuii ,,f 

 labor among bees, 194 ; account of 818 

 -328 ; described by Aristotle and Vir- 

 gil, 318 ; Mr. Wagner's letter on, 318 ; 

 their modern introduction to notice, 

 818; value of, in the study of the 

 physiology of the honey-bee, 819; 

 cells of, the same size as those of the 

 common bee, 820 ; Dzierzon's experi- 

 ments with, 320; frequent disturbances 

 abate nothing from the industry of, 

 821 (note); general diffusion of, de- 

 sirable, 321 ; superior to common bee, 

 322, 324, 325 ; peaceable disposition of, 

 322 ; may readily be introduced into 

 hives of common bees, 322; furnishes 

 new means of studying the habits of 

 bees, 322 ; the purity of, can be pre- 

 served, 322 ; character of, as tested by 

 Berlepsch, 824 ; number of queens 

 obtained in one season, from one 

 queen, 324; remarkable fact in rela- 

 tion to hybrids, 824 (note); descrip- 

 tion of, by Busch, 324 ; Hadlkoffer's 

 account of, 325; how to introduce an 

 Italian queen to a stock of common 



