368 
Payne, Mr. J. H., 163, 198, 199 | 
(bis), 231, 232, 252, 272, 285, | 
289. | 
Payne’s glass, 169. | 
Pea flour used for pollen, 248. | 
Pedestals, 76§. | 
Peppermint used in sprinkling, 40, | 
220. 
Perforated zinc used in uniting | 
colonies, 299. | 
Pettigrew, Mr., 36. 
Philadelphia hive, 115; collateral, | 
128. 
Philissus, or Philiscus, 322. | 
Phora incrassata, 260. | 
Pigs not to be near bees, 153. 
“Pine, Dr.,” 41, 166. 
Pine honey mischievous, 182, 
Pint of bees, how many, 289. 
Piping, 18, 292, 294 (6%s). 
Plastering hives, 46. 
Platforms—see Alighting-boards. 
Pliny (the Elder), 322. 
Polish honey, 261. 
Pollen, 183§; supplied to princesses, 
10; to queen, 13, 184; to drones, 
16, 184; kept in large cells, 181 ; 
a flesh-forming nutriment, 184, 
212; given to larve, 184; re- 
quisite to wax-secretion, 7b. ; taken 
by workers, 7b., 212; weight of 
stale, in hive, 205, 272; winter 
store of, 212; substitutes for, or 
“artificial,” 247§, 274; spoiling 
in winter, 247; mixed with syrup, 
248; how far essential, 249; 
quantity carried into hive a 
criterion of strength, 272; large 
quantities gathered, 273; attempt 
to hatch queen out of, 428. 
Po-ch to entrance, 106, 107, 120. 
Position of hives, 151, 153$; in 
winter, 237§ ; marked by bees on 
first flight, 304. 
Poultry objectionable, 153, 186. 
Pound of bees, how many, 289. 
“Practical Bee- Keeping” — see 
Cheshire, Rev. F. R. 
Preuss, Dr, 256, 264, 265. 
Princesses, how long developing, 7 ; 
rearing of, 10; one first hatched 
INDEX. 
destroys rivals, 13, 148, 292, 295; 
destroyed if swarming delayed, 
23, 288; law of primogeniture 
among, 291 ; remain in cell after 
maturity, 292; able to fly on 
hatching, ib.; piping of, 293; 
several may issue at once, 294; 
instance of one returning with 
swarm and destroying four others, 
295. See also Queen. 
Probosces, 18; longer in Italians, 
36 ; form of the word, 329. 
Propolis, 181§$ ; not used by Egyp- 
tians, 44; hives fixed with, 56 ; 
varnished with, 62; frames fixed 
with, 88; walls of, within flight- 
holes, 187. 
Pupa—see Nymph. 
Purchas, 239. 
Queen, 4; workers destroy rivals 
to, 13; two living together, ib., 
295; when none in hive, bees will 
not work, 18; lays worker and 
drone eggs on same occasion, 20, 
26 ; when absent, workers do not 
destroy drones, 23; when flies, 
24, 29, 325; when commences 
laying, 24, 38, 325; remains 
fertile for life, 24; drone-breeding, 
29; age when larva can be reared 
into, 32; disposition of some bees 
to destroy, id., 328 ; attempts to 
raise, out of pollen, drone eggs, 
&e., ibb. ; of unusual colour, 34 ; 
instance of one preserved. on 
slaughter of subjects, ib. ; supply- 
ing new, 38, 40, 318§; to be 
changed if unprolific, 213, 274, 
341 (cp. 8); whether subject to 
foul brood, 268 ; old one accom- 
panies first swarm, 287 ; how to 
capture, in a swarm, 290; often 
more than one in after-swarms, 
w., 293; vigorous or unfruitful, 
in a swarm, 291; law of succession 
with, 7b ; destruction of, on re- 
turning of swarm, 295; young 
less foreseeing than old, 296 ; only 
an Italian, lays drone eggs first 
year, 301; clipping wings of, 308; 
encasement of, 314, 320; search- 
