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INDEX 



Honey-eaters, 282 V 



Honey- scented box, 265 

 Honeysuckle, 272, 279 

 How to hive swarms, 84, ( 

 Huber, 46 



Hunting bees, 40, 132, 171 

 Hybrid bees, 1, 8, 9, 109 



Illumbra, 253 



Imperfect female bee, 7, 170 

 Importance of spring work, 70 

 Increase, forced, 69 



natural, 68 

 Interchanging frames, etc., 49 

 Introducing cages, 77 



queens, 121 



various methods of, 123 



virgin queens, 124 

 Inverting hives, 30 

 Ironbark, 243, 244 



red, 252 



white, 253 

 Italian bees, 74 



Japanese buckwheat, 234 

 Jarrah, 241, 253 



Karri, 241, 254 

 Knives, Bingham, 54 



Labels, 190 

 Langstroth frames, 29 



hive, 26 

 Langstroth, L. L., 24, 26 

 Large hives, 26 

 Large plant, 18 

 Larvie, 43," 104, 109 



age of, 43, 109 



development of, 43, 46, 47 



growth of, 43 



transferring, 109, 117 

 Laws and regulations, 12, 22 

 Laying workers, 170 

 Legs of bees, 2, 5, 6, 7 

 Lemon-scented gum, 254 

 Levulose, 187 

 Licenses, 12 

 Ligurian bees, 8, 74 

 Location of apiary, 9, 72 

 Location of hive by the bees, 38, 224 

 Locations and buildings, 9 

 Loss of young queens, 147 

 Lucerne, 243, 272 



Mahogany, 243, 255 

 Maize, 273 



Making a beginning, 9, 72 

 Mallee giant, 250 



hooked, 256 



oil, 256 



red flowering, 256 



scrub, 256 



slender, 256 

 Management of outyards, 129 

 Mangrove, 273 

 Manipulation of frames, 44, 131, 220 



of hives, 30, 33 

 Manna gum, 243, 254 

 Mating, 73, 105, 121 



when it occurs, 105 



Mead, 175 



Meadow sage, 274 



Melaleuca, 275 



Melilotus, 274 



Melons, 275 



Messmate, 225 



Metamorphosis of the be,e, 43, 104 



Metheglin, 175 



Method of fastening foundation, 37 



Mice, 151 



Midrib of honey-comb, 43, 93 



Miller group of hives, 39 



Mills for foundation making, 214 



Mimoseae, 276 



Mint-bush, 274 



Mistletoe, 274 



Moisture in honey, 50, 248 



Moonah, 274 



Moths, 148 



Mouth connecting stomachs, 4 



Moving bees in hot weather, 41 



Mustard, 274 



Muzzle wood, 243, 255 



Nailing hives, 31 

 Native currant, 277 

 Natural increase, 68, 80 



protection, 12 



swarms, 68, 70, 80 

 Nectar, analysis of, 160, 247 



extra floral, 164 



good weather for, 248 



what it is, 164, 165 



when secreted, 246 

 Needle-bush, 276, 277 

 Non-swarming bees, 79, 132 

 Normal queen-cells, 80, 103 



swarms, 68, 77, 80 

 Nuclei, 73, 115 



baby, 120 



glass, 202 



how to stock, 73, 120 



young queens in, 73, 121 

 Number of hives in apiary, 9, 17, 73, 129 

 Number of queen cells, 80, 112, 168 

 Numbering hives, 200 

 Nursery, 117 

 Nursery cages, 117 

 Nymph, 43, 104 



Observatory hive, 203 

 Ocelli, 2 



Odd-size super, 48 

 Odour of apiary, 248 



of bee-hive, 153 

 Old combs, 44, 45, 179 

 One-piece honey-sections, 28, 90 

 Onion, 277 

 Opening hives, 45 

 Orange, 277 

 Orange-blossom, 277 

 Orderly arrangement, 38 

 Outyard, how to stock up, 71 

 Outyards, 71-129 



management of, 129 

 Ovaries, 4, 109, 193 



exhaustion of, 195 

 Ovipositor, 150 



Packing bees for travel, 41, 222 

 bees for winter, 176 

 box hives, 22, 41 ■ 



