364 
Depriving, system, 46§ ; hives, 56; , 
ancient method, 302. 
Devonshire Bee-Keeper,” 34. 
Diptera, 346-354. 
Disease, statement that only Italians 
are subject to, 327. See also Dy- 
sentery, &e., &e. 
Distance, to which bees fly, 21, 22, 
163 ; bees from, thrive best, 313. 
Distance pin, 110. 
Dividers, 58. 
Divisional hive, 141. 
Divisional supers, 116, 118, 121. 
Dogs objectionable, 153. 
Donhoff, Dr., 32. 
Double hive-walls, 108, 148. 
Doubling-board, 125, 151. 
Draughts in hives, 243. 
Driving, 229§ ; in artificial swarm- 
ing, 310. 
Drones, 19§ ; theirpresence necessary 
to royal cells, 7, 288; fed by nurse 
bees, 16, 184 ; numbers of, 19, 25; 
when they appear, 20, 286 ; de- 
scended from mother alone, 26, 28; 
always same breed as mother, 29 ; 
“a 
male organ of, 30; peculiar as to | 
colour, 34; commotion among, 
previous to swarming, 287 ; take 
part in swarm, 289 ; essential to 
artificial swarms, 318 ; from un- 
fertile queen or fertile worker, 
327. See also Kyys, Pairing, Re- 
production, 
Drone-comb, 280, 318. 
Drone-preventers—see 
venters. 
Drone-traps, 42, 169. 
Di umming, 224, 230. 
Dummy frames, 92, 109; hives con- 
tracted by, in winter, 240. 
Dunbar, Dr., 164, 205, 231, 311. 
Duplets, 51. See Supers. 
Dysentery, 236, 237, 238 (bis), 247, 
2528. 
Dzierzon, Dr., 3; cited, 12, 26, 29, 
33, 36, 87, 147, 162, 183, 247, 259 
bis), 260, 261 (bis), 263, 328, 
Economic hive, 65. 
Eggs, whether removed, 6 ; queen- 
producing, when developed, 7, 10; 
Queen-pre- 
INDIES. 
process of laying, 11; appearance 
of, 2b. ; waste of, 16.; devoured. by 
bees, 12, 209; number laid, 12; 
worker, 14; drone, 20; un- 
fertilised, produce drones, 20, 27. 
Kgyptian bees, 1, 438. 
Kkes, 52, 192. 
Electricity promotes honey-gather- 
iny, 284. 
Kncasement of queen, 314, 320. 
nemies of bees, 1868, 2798. 
l'ntrance-ways—see Flight-holes. 
vans, Dr., and his poem, 358S. 
i{vergreens in rear desirable, 153. 
Eves of bees, 18. 
“abricius, 352. 
! 
Manning, 16, 258, 264, 284. 
| 
‘arina—see Pollen. 
‘eeding, in autumn for winter store, 
2048, 211§; in common skeps, 206 5 
precautions as to, 209, 340 (bis) ; 
stimulating, 210; distinction as 
to, for present consumption and 
for winter store, 7b. ; stimulates to 
foraging in autumn, ¢b. (but when 
well performed then, keeps at 
home in winter, 204); must becom- 
plete before winter, 211, 234; 
begets activity, 236, 275; im- 
moderate, supposed to cause foul 
brood, 263; in spring, 2748; of 
stocks left bare of bees, 318. 
Feeding-can, 210. 
Feeding-hole, 93. 
Feeding-stage, 112. 
Meeding-troughs, 2068. 
elt covers, 67. 
Fertile workers, 31§ ; peculiar class 
of, among Egyptians, 44; drones 
descended from, 327 ; laying seve- 
ral eges in a cell, 328. 
Fertilising, of flowers, 18, 183; of 
ezys, 27 ; of queen—see Pairing, 
Reproduction. 
Flap, falling, 120. 
Flight, range of, of drones, 21; of 
queens, 22; essential to pairing, 
31, 42; from or to high elevations, 
151, 153; high objects obstruct, 
154 ; fatigue resulting from, ibd. ; 
