INDEX. 



405 



bees eat less in, when kept quiet, 

 335, 855*858 ; bees should be protected 

 from winds of, 337 ; bees in, if out of 

 doors, should be allowed to fly, 337 ; 

 how to ventilate hives in, 338 ; snow 

 in, when inj urious to bees, 338 (note 1) ; 

 bees need water in, S42-346 ; when 

 honey is candied in, bees need water, 

 842-344 ; disturbing bees in, injurious, 

 847, 355 ; fewer bees die in, when 

 hives are in clamps, than when in 

 other special depositories, 358 ; tem- 

 porary removal of colonies in, to a 

 warm room, 341, 862. 



Wintering bees, 335-361 ; objections to, 

 in the open air, 835; how to get honey 

 for, in centre of hive,' 336 ; bee pas- 

 sages in comb for, 887 (and note 1), 

 889 (and note) ; in a dry vault or cel- 

 lar, 848 ; in special repositories, 348- 

 860 ; further experiments in, needed, 

 860 ; requires caution in removing 

 them from winter quarters, 861. 



Wives, a friendly word to, 220. 



Wood-cuts, explanation of, 11, 371. 



Women, American, suffer from bad 

 ventilation, 92. 



Worker-comb, size of the cells of, 74 ; all 

 good, can be used in mov. comb hive, 

 130; not built unless bees have a 

 mature queen, 149. 



Worker-bees, are females with undevel- 

 oped ovaries, 29; when fertile, their 



progeny always drones, 36; Huber's 

 theory concerning fertile, 37, 55; 

 sometimes exalted to be queens, 37 ; 

 one raised from a drone egg, by L)r. 

 Donhoff, 41 ; incapable of impregna- 

 tion, 42; wood-cuts of, Plate XII., 

 Figs. 35, 86 ; number of, in swarm, 54; 

 author's opinion respecting fertile, .Vi ; 

 fertile prefer to lay in drone cells, 55 ; 

 honey-bag, 56 ; representation of, PI. 

 XVII., Fig. 54, A ; use of proboscis of, 

 56 ; wood-cut of proboscis of, PI. 

 XVI., Fig. 51 ; pollen-basket, 56 ; sting, 

 56; wood-cut of, PI. XVII., Fig. 53; 

 loss of sting fatal, 57 ; do all the work 

 of the hive, 58 ; their age, 58 ; lesson 

 of industry from, 59 ; attention to royal 

 cells, 62 ; wood-cut of abdomen of, PI. 

 XVI., Fig. 5-2 ; two kinds of, described 

 by Huber, 192 (note 2) ; differently 

 occupied in different periods of life, 

 194 ; impulse of, to gather honey, un- 



developed in early life, 195. 



Worms, see Bee-Moth, larvaj of. 



Wormwood, use of, for driving away 

 robbing bees, 265 (note). 



Wurtemberg, number of its colonies of 



Zollickoffer, H. M., his account of bees 

 building combs on a tree, 118. 



