Glossary^ 445 



Moth— All scale-winged insects except butterflies. 



Motli Larva — ^Immature moth. 



Moth-Miller — Incorrect term often used for moth. 



Moth Trap— Trap for catching moths. 



Movable Frame Hive — Langstroth hive, p. 176. 



Nadir— The under slory of a two storv hive ; a wide eke, p. 189. 



Nectar — Sweet substance, as the liquid in nectaries of flowers, p. 145. 



Nectaries — Nectar glands of flowers. 



Nerves — White threads which connect organs to convey impressions or impulses, 



p. 65. 

 Neuter — Incorrect name for woiker bees; they are not neuters but undeveloped 



females, p. 107. 

 New Idea Hive — Lonj? one story hive witli inany frames. 

 Non-Swarming Hive — A purely ideal hive, supposed to prevent swarming. 

 Normal — Usual ; regular. 



Nucleus — Plural nuclei j miniature colony of bees for queen rearing, p. 236. 

 Nurse Bees — Young bees or ones that feed the brood, p. 13S. 

 Nursery — Device for rearing queens. See lamp nursery, p. 241. 

 Nymph — An insect in the pupa state ; the immature bee in cell that is the form of 



adult bee is a nymph, p. 79. 

 Observatory Hive — Hive with glass sides, so that bees can be seen without dis- 

 turbing them, p. 203. 

 Ocelli — Simple eyes on epicranium, usually three, p. 59. 

 (Esophagus — Tube leading from pharynx to honey stomach, p. 70. 

 Open Sections — Sections mat do not touch on sides, p. 205. 

 Ovary — Essential organs of the female, where the eggs grow, p. 75. 

 Over-stocking — Where more bees are kept than a locality can supply with a full 



harvest of nectar. 

 Oviduct — ^Tube for passage of egg from ovary, p. 75. 

 Palestine Bees — Race of yellow bees found in Southern Syria ; the so-called Holy 



Land bees, p. 45. 

 Paraffine — ^Wax-like crystalline substance used to coat barrels and prevent leakage; 



one of the products of crude petroleum 

 Parasite — An organism that feeds upon another, p. 27. 

 Parent Colony — The colony from which a swarm has issued, 

 Paraglossafr — Short appendages at base of tongue, p. 112. 

 Parthenogenesis — Reproduction without males, pp. 94, 106. 

 Pasturage — Plants from which food is secured, p. 332. 

 Perforated Zinc — Zinc with holes cut so worker bees can pass, but drones and 



queens can not, p. 183. 

 Pharynx— Throat or back of the mouth, p. 70. 

 Phenol — Pure carbolic acid, p. 406. 

 Piping of Queens — Noise made by young queens when one has emerged from cell 



and others have not, p. 142. 

 Poison Sac — Sac at base of sting to hold the poison, p. 131. 

 Pollen^ — Male cell or element of flowers ; bee bread, pp. 126, 159. 

 Pollen Basket— Corbicula; cavity on posterior leg for carrying pollen, p. 126. 

 Pollen Combs — Rows of hairs on first tarsus of second and third pairs of legs of 



worker, on the inside, p. 126. 

 Pollen Hairs — Compound or webbed hairs of bees, used for collecting pollen, p. 123. 

 Portico — ^Porch to hive, p. 178. 

 Pound Section— Section 4^^ inches square, p. 205. 

 Prime Swarm — First swarm. 



Prize Section — Section Q% by 5^ inches square, p. 205. 

 Propolis — Bee glue, p. 162. 

 Propolize — ^To cover witii propolis. 

 Prune^To cut out undesirable comb, as drone or old. 

 Puff Ball— A large fungus which, when pressed, sends out myriads of spores^ it 



is sometimes used to subdue bees, 

 Pulvilli — ^Adhesive disks on the last joint of an insect's leg, p, 125. ' " ' 



Pupa — ^Third stage of insects, that between larva and imago ; also called nymph,^ 



p. 79. 

 Queen — Mother bee, p. 82. 



Queen Cage — Cagje for introducing queen, p. 242. 

 Queen Cell— Cell in which queen is reared, p. 234, 

 Queenless — ^Having no queen. 



