Glossary. 443 
Diarrhoeea—Dysentery, p. 403. 
Dipping Boatd—Bosrd for securing thin wax sheets in making foundation, p. 309. 
Dividing—Forming colonies artificially, p. 257. 
Division Board—Board for reducing the size of the brood chamber, p. 186. 
Dollar Queens—Queens sold for one dollar, p. 271. 
Driving Bees—Causing the bees to pass out of a hive into a box placed above by 
rapping on the hive, p. 219. 
Drone—Male bee, p. 100. 
Drone Brood--Brood which produces drone bees, p, 105. 
Drone Comb—Comb with large cells, in which drones may be reared, p. 153. 
Drone Beg—Eggs that produce drones, p. ae 
Drone Trap—Trap for catching drones, p. 240. i z 
Drumming Bees—Forcing bees from one hive to another hive or box by rapping on 
the first with a stick or hammer, p. 219. 
Dry Feces—Supposed dry excreta of bees. 
Dummies—Division boards, p. 186. 
Bene wines disease of bees, p. 403, 
Dzierzon Theory—Parthenogenesis ; agamic reproduction ; theory that unfecun- 
dated eggs will develop, and in bees such eggs always produce drones, p. 104. 
Egg—The initial or first stage of all the higher animals, pp. 77, 135. 
segyoien Bee—Yellow bee from Eeypt, p. 37. 2 
Eke—Rim to raise and enlarge the hive ; often a half hive. 
Embryo—The young animal while yet in the egg or before birth. 
Entrance—Opening of the hive where the bees enter, p. 182. 
Entrance Blocks—Pieces of wood, usually triangular, for contracting or closing 
the entrance of hive, p. 182. ; 
Entrance Guard—Perforated zinc to prevent drones or queen from leaving the hive, 
p. 240, 
Epicranium—Part of head between and above the eyes. 
Extracted Higney | ouey thrown from the comb by use of the extractor, p. 281. 
Extractor—Machine for extracting, p. 276. 
yes Organs of sight in insects ; there are usually two large compound and three 
small simple or Ocelli, p. 59. 
Feces—Intestinal excreta of animals. 
Farina—Flour ; incorrectly used for pollen. 
Fecundate—Union of sperm and germ cells ; to impregnate, p. 76, 
Feeder—Device for feeding bees, p. 227. 
Femur—Third and largest joint ahi an insect’s leg, p. 63. 
Fertile—Productive ; often used for impregnated or fecundated. A queen that can 
la eegs is fertile ; after mating she is fecund. 
Fertile Worker—Worker that lays eggs, p. 108. 
Foul brood—Malignant disease of a fungoid character which attacks bees, p. 403. 
Foundation, F’dn.—-Stamped wax sheets, p. 304. 
Frame—Device for holding comb in the hive, p, 192. F 
Fumigate—To surround with fumes. We fumigate the bees with smoke and the 
combs with sulphur fumes, p. 326. 
P eae Frame—Frame 11Y inches square, p. 193. 
Ganglia--Knots of nerve matter like the brain, p. 65. 
German Bee—Common black bee, p. 41. 
Glands—Tubular or sack-like organs which form from elements taken from the 
blood a liquid called a secretion. Bees have several pairs of glands, p. 113. 
Glassing—Covering or protecting sections of comb honey with glass. 
ba ae le ia sugar, p 146. 
Good Candy—Candy made by mixing sugar and honey, p. 273. 
Granulated Honey—Honey that has crystallized or candied, p. 282. 
Grub—Larva of beetle, p. 78. 
Guide Comb—Narrow piece of comb or starters fastened to top-bar of frame or 
section, p. 250. 
Hatch—To issue from egg ; egg hatches, the brood develops and emerges from 
cell. 
Hatching Brood—Incorrectly used to refer to bees coming from cells, 
Heart—Circulating Organ ; in insects a tube along the back, p. 67. 
Heath Bees—Variety of German bees from Luneberg Heath, Europe, p. 45. 
Heddon Hive—Hive with divided brood chamber, the division being horizontal, p. 
188. : 
Heddon-Langstroth Hive—Langstroth hive as used by Heddon, p. 181. 
