^^6 Glossary, 



Queen Rearing — Raising- of queens, p. 233. 



Queen Register — Card to show state of hive as to queen, p. 246. 



Queen's Voice — Noise made by queen like piping; true voice, p. 142. 



Queen Yard — Box with perforated zinc, to keep a clipped queen from being lost 

 when she comes put with a swarm ; also called queen trap, p. 141. 



Quilt— Cover for brood frames, consisting of two cloths containing- wool or cottt a 

 sewed together, p. 185. 



Quinby Hive — Large Huber style of hive, p. 198. 



Quinby Frame — Large frame 18}4 by llK inches, p. 191. 



Quincunx — AVhere things in rows alternate, thus, . ' . ' . 



Rabbet — Where one side of the edge of a board is planed down for a short distance, 

 p. 182. 



Race — Breed. Where a variety has been closely bred so long as to transmit its 

 peculiarities to its offspring. Race is a natural breed, p. 37. 



Rack — Crate or case ; section rack. ' 



Rectal Glands — Glands in the rectum, p. 121. 



Rectum — Large intestine, p. 121. 



Rendering Wax — Melting and cleaning wax, p. 317. 



Reversing— Inverting ; turning bottom up, p. 257. 



Rhomb— Four equal sided figure, two of whose opposite angles are equal and acute, 



the others equal and obtuse. 

 Ripe honey — Honey that has cured or evaporated, so it is thick, p. 149. 

 Robbing — When bees steal honey from another colony, p. 402. 

 Rtiyal Jelly — Food fed to queen larvae, p. 88. 



Scouts — Bees that go forth just before swarming to find and prepare the new ho'iic. 

 Seal — To close. 



Sealed Brood — Brood in cells that the bees have capped, p. 136. 

 Sealed Honey — Honey in cells that are capped. 

 Section- Small frame for comb honev, p. 203. 

 Separator— Wood or tin strip, very thin, for separating sections, so that bees will 



build straight and true combs, p. 2U. 

 Septum — Base between cells of comb : incorrectly called mid-rib. 

 Sholtz Candy— Good candy ; sugar and honey mixed j described years ago by Sholtz, 



a German. 

 Skip — Straw hive, such as were used in olden times. 

 Smell — Sense located in antennae of insects, p. 56. 

 Smoker— Instrument used to smoke or quiet bees, p. 298. 

 Smyrnian Bees— A variety or race of bees from a province— Smvrna-in Asiatic 



Turkey, p. 46. 

 Species— Animals so long bred as to have distinctive characteristics, more fixed 



than a race, p. 37. 

 Spent Queen — One sterile with age. 



Spermatheca— The sac off oviduct of queen that holds the sperm, p. 75. 

 SpermatozosB— ^perni cells : the male element or fecundating principle, p. 94 

 Spring Dwindling— Rapid dying of bees in the spring, p. 396. 

 Stand— Support of hive. Incorrectly used for colony. 

 Starter— A small piece of comb or foundation fastened to the top bar of a hive, p. 



Sterile Queen— One that does not lay, p. 97. 



Sting— The organ of defense of bees, wasps, etc., p. 130 



Stock— Wrongly used for colon3r ; if used at all it should refer to bees, hive and all. 



Stomach— W^here the food is mamly digested, p ^20. 



Storify— Used in England for adding upper stories to luves. 



Strain— A variety, as a strain of bees, developed by the bee-keeper 



Strained Honey— Honey strained through a cloth, not extracted honev. 



Sulphur— A yellow mineral used to fumigate honey 



Super— Upper story, either for extr::cted honey or honev in sections, p. 209 



Supersede— To replace with another. * ^ 



Swarm— Bees that leave hive in natural division, 140 



Swarming Basket-Basket lo convey swarm from place of clustering to hive n 140 



Swarming Impulse or Fever-Desire of the bees to swarm ' 



Swarming Season— Season of year when bees are likely to swarm. 



^"i^o.^f« R?Jl^^lZ!L.° ™^u^^ *'?"' Xorthern Palestine, p. -44. 



Taking up Bees— Destroying bees to get the honey Rjiv 

 Tarsus— Last one to five joints of insect leg : f oot p 123 

 Tested Queen— One proved pure by examination of her o 



offspring. 



