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Ripe Honey — Honey that has cured or evaporated, so it is thick, p. 337. 

 Robbing — When bees steal honey from another colony, p. 473. 

 Royal Jelly — Food fed to queen-larvaB, p. 108. 



Saliva — Secretion of the mouth, p. 91. 



Scape — Base of antenna, p. 69. 



Scouts — Bees that go forth just before swarming to find and prepare the 



new home, p. 166. 

 Seal — To close. 



Sealed Brood — Brood in cells that the bees have capped, p. 162. 

 Sealed Honey — Honey in cells that are capped, p. 183. 

 Section — Small frame for comb honey, 239. 

 Seminal Vesicle — Sac to hold sperm-cells or semen, p. 93. 

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



bees will build straight and true combs, p. 250. 

 Septum — Base between cells of comb; incorrectly called midrib, p. 182. 

 Sholtz Candy — Good candy ; sugar and honey mixed ; invented years ago 



by Sholtz, a German, p. 318. 

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

 Smell — Sense located in antennae of insects, p. 70. 

 Smoker — Instrument used to smoke or quiet bees, p. 348. 

 Smyrnian Bees — A variety or race of bees from a province — Smyrna — ^in 



Asiatic Turkey, p. 58. 

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



fixed, p. 52. 

 Spent Queen — One sterile with age, p. 118. 



iSpermatheca — The sac oft oviduct of queen that holds the sperm, p. 104. 

 Spermatozoas — Sperm-cells; the male element or fecundating principle, 



p. 124. 

 Spring Dwindling — Rapid dying of bees in the spring, p. 466. 

 Stand — Support of hive. Incorrectly used for colony. 

 Starter — A small piece of comb or foundation fastened to the top-bar of a 



hive, 295. 

 Sterile Queen — One that does not lay, or whose eggs do not hatch, p. 118. 

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

 Stock — Wrongly used for colony; if used at all it should refer to bees, 



hive and all. 

 Stomach — Where the food is mainly digested, pp. 90, 143. 

 Stomach-Mouth — Organ at base of honey-stomach, p. 143. 

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

 Storifying— English, tiering up. 



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

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

 Sulphur — A yellow mineral used to fumigate honey. 



Super — Upper story, either for extracted honey or honey in 6ectiOQs,p.214. 

 Supersede — To replace with another. 

 Swarm — Bees that leave hive in natural division, p. 166. 

 Swarming-Basket — Basket to convey swarm from place of clustering to 



hive, 297. 

 Swarming Impulse or Fever — Desire of the bees to swarm. 

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

 Syrian Bee — Race of yellow bees from Northern Palestine, p. 55. 



Taking up Bees — Destroying bees to get the honey. Rare now. 



Tarsus— Last one to five joints of insect leg; foot, p. 79. 



Tested Queen— One proved pure by examination of her offspring. 



