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INDEX. 



Queon, power of egg-laying, lo 

 ,, homage paid to fertile, 



12 



,, no attention bestowed on 

 virgins, 13 

 two queens in a hive, 15 

 sting of used for deposit- 

 ing eggs, IS 



,, some queens will not 

 fight, IS 



,, consternation at loss of,i6 



,, life of, 19 



,, fertilisation of, 11, 20, 22, 



24 

 ,, in relation to sexes, 63 

 ,, at swarming time, 73 

 ,, and drone preventers, 200 

 ,, rearing, 17, 27, 77, 243 

 ,, cells, 17, 244 



securing, 228, 240 

 , , mtroducing stranger, 247 

 ,, cages, 198, 244 

 Quilts, 180 



Rationale of swarming, 72 

 Relation of sex to cells, 67 



, , plants to insects , s^, 57 



Removing bees, 2S9 

 ,, supers, 266 



, , frames, 268 

 Reproductive economy, 62 

 Renfrewshire bee-keeper,24,4i, IS4 

 ,, queen cage, 199 



,, instructions on su- 



pering, 337 

 Robbmg, 225, 30s 

 Rorl's (Mr.) way to get ciijit of 



fertile workers, 67 

 Round feeder, 205 

 Royal cells, 17, 244 



,, ,, transferring, 198 



,, duels, IS, and Appendix 



Salt obtained by bees, 30, 97 

 Samuelson's work. The Honey 



Bee, s, 91, 96 

 Siebold,Von,onParthenogenesis,64 

 Skep, Crystal Palace, 109 



, (old), transferring combs 

 from, 223 



Slow feeding, 204 

 Smelling, sense of, largely pos- 

 sessed by bees,-96 

 Smith, Mr. J., 48 

 Smymsean bees, 47 

 Society of Arts, S7 

 Stands for hives, 118, 170 

 Stewarton hive, 146 to 155, 337 

 Sting, 104 



„ prevention and cure, 286 

 Stocks (old) transferring, 222 

 Stomach of bees, 102 

 Straw frame-hive, 136, 141 



., hives, round, 108 to 120 

 Stupefying bees, 207 

 Supers, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, i8s 

 Superstitions about bees, 341 

 Supplying natural comb, 261 

 Swammerdam, 63 

 Swarm, number of bees compos- 

 ing, 79 

 „ second flight disastrous, 



214 

 ,5 often mix, 214 

 „ taking, 214 

 „ sending to a distance, 217 



conveyance of, 217 

 , transferring, 218 

 „ returning, 218 

 ,, brought from a distance, 



219 

 ,, should be fed, 221 

 „ truant, 78, 317 

 „ artificial, 233 

 Swarming, rationale of, 72 



„ provision made for, 74, 



78 

 , signs of, 80 



„ a provision of Nature. 



212 



TAYLOR, the late Mr. H., 37 



Taylor's glasses, 181 



Thorax of bee, 97 



Tongue of bee, 92 



Transferring board, 192 

 ,5 swarms, 218 



J, old stocks, 222 



Tristram, Rev. H. B., extract 

 from his book, 51 



