526 GI,OSSARY. 



Thorax — Second part of insect's body, p. 64. 



Tibia — Fourth joint of an insect's leg, from the body, p. 79. 



Tibial Spur — Spur at end of tibia, p. 79. 



Tier Up — Setting additional stories or supers of sections on a hive. 



Tongue— Sucking tube of bee, p, 133. 



Tracheae — Air-tubes or turbular lungs of insects, p. 81. 



Transferring — Removing colony of bees from one hive to another, p. 258. 



Transformations — Changes from larva to pupa to imago, p. 96. 



Travel-Stain — Soil of comb when left long in hive. 



Trochanter — Second joint of insect's leg, 79. 



Uncapping — Cutting caps from comb-cells, p. 325. 



Unfertile — Queen or eggs that can not produce young. 



Uunicomb Hive — Hive with one comb and glass sides; observatory hive, 



p. 238. 

 Uniting — To put two or more colonies into one, p. 465. 

 Unqueemng — Removing queen from colony. 

 Unripe — Thin honey ; honey not cured or evaporated, p. 327. 

 Unsealed — Applied to honey and brood when not capped. 

 Untested Queen— One whose purity has not been demonstrated. 

 Urinary Tubules — Tubes attached to the stomach of a bee, p. 9u. 



Variety — Division of a race ; a strain, p. 52. 



Veil — Protection for face, p. 344. 



Velum — Part of antenna cleaner, p. 148. 



Ventilation — Changing the air so it shall he constantly pure. 



Virgin — Unmated queen. 



Wax — Secretion formed between the abdominal segments of worker-bees, 

 p. 1.55. 



Wax-press — Press for expressing wax, p. 371. 



Wax-extractor — Device for separating the wax from comb, p. 367. 



Wax Plates or Pockets — Place where the wax-scales form on the underside 

 of a worker-bee, p. 155. 



Wedding Flight — Flight of queen to mate with the drone, p. 112. 



Wild Bees — Bees in the forest, etc., with no owner. 



Wind-Break — High fence or evergreen hedge to protect from wind, p. 253. 



Winter-Passages — Holes through the center of combs so bees can pass 

 through, p. 456. 



Wired-Frames — Frames with opposite sides connected with fine wire, pp. 

 230, 364. 



Worker-Bees — The undeveloped females ; the bees that do the work ex- 

 cept that of egg-laying. 



Worker-Eggs — Eggs that develop into workers, p. 129. 



Worm — Term usually applied to a larva ; really a footless cylindrical 

 animal like an angle-worm, p. 31. 



