GLOSSARY 



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Sjrrian Bees. The Holy Land 

 Bees. A yellow race native 

 to Palestine. 



Ten-Frame Hive. The stand- 

 ard Langstroth hive with 

 ten frames. 



Tested Queen. A queen that 

 has been tested by observing 

 her offspring to make sure 

 that she has been purely 

 mated. 



Tunisian Bees. Black bees 

 native to the North Coast 

 of Africa. The Punic bees. 



Uncapping Enife. A knife 

 used for removing the cap- 

 pings from the honeycomb 

 in preparation for extracting. 



Unripe Honey. Green honey. 

 Honey containing an excess 

 of moisture. 



Unsealed Brood. Brood which 

 has not yet completed the 

 larval stage of development. 

 At the end of six days after 

 hatching the young larvas 

 complete their growth and 

 their cells are sealed over. 



Virgin. An unmated queen. 



Wax. The material used by the 

 bees in building their combs. 



Wax Extractor. An imple- 

 ment for separating the 

 wax from the slumgum in 

 rendering combs. 



Wax Worm. See Beemoth. 



Wiring Frames. The placing 

 of wires across the frames 

 when putting in foundation, 

 to support the combs later 

 to be built by the bees. 



Wax Pockets. The receptacles 

 between the segments on 

 the under side of the abdo- 

 men of the worker bee 

 where the wax scales are 

 produced. 



Worker. An imperfectly de- 

 veloped female bee. The 

 neuter. In every hive there 

 are thousands of workers 

 which perform all the labor 

 of the colony. 



Worker-comb. Honeycomb 

 containing cells of the size 

 for rearing worker bees. 



Wedding Flight. The queen's 

 mating flight. 



