INDEX. 



97 



Feeding -with hot sjo'up, 57 



Fertile workers, 8 



the best plan to get rid of, 



8 

 introducing to colonies 



with, 8 

 Fixed comb hives, 16 

 Fixing queen cells into nuclei, 61 

 Floor boards of hives, 18 



illustration of, . 18 



Flour, pea, used as artificial 



pollen, 65 



— sprinkling bees with when 

 uniting, 43 



Formic acid, the poison in bee 

 stings, 30 



as a cure for foul brood, 81 



Foul brood, remedies for, 78-81 



symptoms of, 78 



Foundation,see Comb foundation 

 Frames, 16 



— British standard size, 16 



— filled with sections, 37, 38, 

 85-7 



illustration of, 38 



— illustrations of, 16, 38 



— sections converted into minia- 

 ture frames, 85, 88 



— shallow, 50 



— South African standard size, 

 85 



— wired, see Wired frames 

 Frequent removal of surplus 



honey desirable in hot 

 climates, 84 

 Fruit blossom, its honey yielding 

 value, 9 



— farming, the importance of 

 bees to fruit farmers, iv, 67 



Gloves, 31, 32 



Golden Italian Bees, 15 



Goose wings, useful for removing 

 bees from honey combs, 46 



Gorging the bees before manipu- 

 lating, 32 



Heather hoiiey, 50, 67 



Hives, see Skeps, Bar frame 



hives, and Baby nucleus 



hives 



Honey comb, how to preserve 



empty honey combs from the 



wax moth, 41, 48 



illustrations of, 3, 4 



method of fixing empty 



honey combs into frames, 25 



production of, 45, 46 



Honey, differences in honey 



gathered from various plants, 



67 



— where stored by the bees, 4 

 Honey, extractors, illustrations 



of, 48 

 Honey, ripener, illustration of, 49 

 Hunger swarms, 11 

 Hybrids, 15 

 Hymenoptera, 1 



Increasing the number of stocks 



of bees, 51-64, 84-92 

 Incubating brood artificially, 



86-8, 91, 92 

 Infectious nature of foul brood, 



79 

 Inner walls for doubling boxes 



and hives, sliding, 22 

 ■ illustration of, 



22 

 Intimidating bees by rapping 



on the sides of the hive, 32 



with smoke, 32, 33 



with carbolic acid, 32, 34 



Introducing queens to alien 



stocks and nuclei, 8, 43, OS, 



69, 87 

 Italian or Ligurian bees, 12 



— hybrids, 15 



Karoo bee, 14 



Larva of bees, 4 



Ligurian bees, see Italian bees 



Lime honey, 67 



Maiden swarms, 53 



Male bees, see Drones 



Manipulating bees, 30-34, 83 



Metal ends, 18 



Moths wax, see Wax moth 



Movable comb or bar frame 



hives, 16 

 Moving bees, 24, 42 



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