570 



INDEX. 



Newman on uses of honey. .525, 526 

 Norton on outdoor wintering ... 360 

 Notch of the first pair of legs . . 24 



Nucleus 269, 271 



for artificial swarming.. 251 



how made 271,273 



prepared in advance. . .275 



small 281 



strong 275 



Numbering the hives 176 



Nursing glands of workers ... 15, 1 6 

 Nurses 68,69 



Observing hives 184 



" for pleasure and 



instruction . . 185 

 " in apartments. . .187 



Ocelli of bees 5 



Odor of bees 254, 255 



" of drones 53 



■' of foul-brood 476,477 



" of the moth 498 



" of the poison of bees 38 



" of the queen 283,288 



Oettl, golden rule 556 



" on honey yield 422,423 



" on the language of bees. . 34 



" on statistics 424 



" straw hive 136 



Oil cloth 172 



Old age, signs of, in bees 82 



Old and young queens living to- 

 gether 52 



Old bee-keepers venom-proof. .209 



Olfactory organs 11 



" Girard experi- 



ments on. . 13 

 " lead bees to 



flowers. . 13 



Opening hives 202 



Orphan bees raising queens .... 47 



Otis saw impregnation 55 



Out-apiaries, why 316 



" conditions required 



for.. 316 



" how many? 817 



" our terms for 317 



Outer-boxes for wintering 359 



Out of doors wintering 346 



Ovaries of a drone-laying queen 59 



" of the queen. 57 



" of workers 77 



Overbeck, discovery of origin of 



wax . . 99 



Overstocking 420 



" opinions on 426 



Packard on the breathing organs 32 

 " " instinct of bees 39 



Pain d'fipices 527 



Painting hives 176 



" " different color?. .306 



Paley on the sting 36 



Palteau hive 135 



Palpl and maxillae 20 



Parafflne, melting point of.... 387 



Parsons importation 298 



Parthenogenesis 58, 59 



" proven by Ital- 



ian bees. . 59 

 Pasteur on breeding bacilli . . ; . 475 



" on inoculation 209 



Pasturage for bees 397 



Patents 177 



Perforated zinc 89, 240, 44L 



Phillips, on the bee-moth 489 



" on queen-rearing ....282 



Physiology . . . .' 1 



Piping of the queen ...51,232 



Poison of the sting 38,207 



',' sack .....' 35 



Pollen 123 



" baskets 24,25 



" fresh preferred . . ; 124 



" gathering, useful to plants 



126, 127 



" indispensable to bees 123 



" substitutes 125, 126 



" used when bees make 



combs . . 105 



Portico 163, 353, 360 



Pound, how many bees In one . . 326 



Press, wax 534 



Prevention of af terswarms 241 



" moths in combs. 



498, 502 



" robbing 377 



" swarming 234 



Pridgen, queen-rearing 280 



Production of honey 428 



Propolis 110 



" hard in Winter Ill 



" how to clean from the 



hands. .112 



" from other things 112 



" on sections 443 



" soils the comb Ill 



" uses for bees Ill, 112 



" " in commerce 114 



Pulvilli 22, 23 



Queen, age at fecundation 54 



" balled 227,284 



" beginning to lay 65 



" best conditions to raise. . . 



261, 2S1 



" cages , 283,284,325 



" clipping wings of . . . .225, 226 

 ■" contents of spermatheca of 56 

 " dejections, licked by work- 

 ers. . 18 



" description of 42,48 



" destitute of nursing glands 16 

 " difference in proliflcness of 66 



does not govern 41 



" duration of development of 



48,50 

 " " " transforma- 



tions of . . 92 



