Glossary, 443 



Diarrtioea— Dysentery, p. 403. 



Dipping Board — Board for securing thin wax sheets in making foundation, p. ^00. 



Dividing — Forming colonies artificially, p. li57. 



Division Board — Board for reducing the size of the brood chamber, p. 186. 



Dollar Queens — Queens sold for one dollar, p. 271- 



Driving Bees — Causing; the bees to pass out of a hive into a box placed above by 



rapping on the hive, p. 219. 

 Drone—Male bee, p. 100. 



Drone Brood— Brood which produces drone bees, p. 105. 



Drone Comb — Comb with large cells, in which drones may be reared, p. 153. 

 Drone Egg — Eggs that produce drones, p. 104. 

 Drone Trap — ^Trap for catching drones, p. 240. 

 Drumming Bees — Forcing bees from one hive to another hive or box by rapping on 



the first with a stick or hammer, p. 219. 

 Dry Faices— Supposed dry excreta of bees. 

 Dummies — Division boards, p. 186. 

 Dysentery — ^Winter disease of bees, p. 403. 

 Dzierzon Theory — Parthenogenesis; agamic reproduction; theory that unfecun- 



dated eg^s will develop, and in bees such eg^s always produce drones, p. 104. 

 Egg — ^The initial or first stage of all the higher animals, pp. 77, 135. 

 Egyptian Bee — Yellow bee from Eg^ypt, p. 37. 

 Eke — Rim to raise and enlarge the hive ; often a half hive. 

 Embryo— The young animal while yet in the egg or before birth. 

 Entrance — Opening of the hive where the bees enter, p. 182. 

 Entrance Blocks— Pieces of wood, usually triangular, for contracting or closing 



the entrance of hive, p. 182. 

 Entrance Guard — Perforated' zinc to prevent drones or queen from leaving the hive, 



p. 240. 

 Epicranium — Part of head between and above the eyes. 



Extracted Honey — Honey thrown from the comb by use of the extractor, p. 281. 

 Extractor — Machine for extracting, p. 276. 

 Eyes — Organs of sight in insects ; there are usually two large compound and three 



small simple or Ocelli, p. 59. 

 Faces — Intestinal excreta of animals. 

 Farina — Flour ; incorrectly used for pollen. 



Fecundate — Union of sperm and germ cells ; to impregnate, p. 76. 

 Feeder — Device for feeding bees, p. 227. 

 Femur — ^Third and largest }Oint of an insect's leg, p. 63. 

 Fertile — Productive ; often used for impregnated or fecundated. A queen that can 



lay eggs is fertile ; after mating she is fecund. 

 Fertile Worker — Worker that lays eggs, p. 108. 



Foul brood — Malignant disease of a fungoid character which attacks bees, p. 403- 

 Foundation, F'dn. — Stamped wax sheets, p. 304. 

 Frame — Device for holding comb in the hive, p. 192. 

 Fumigate— To surround with fumes. We fumigate the bees with smoke and the 



combs with sulphur fumes, p. 326. 

 Gallup Frame — Frame llj^ inches square, p. 193. 

 Ganglia— Knots of nerve matter like the brain, p. 66. 

 German Bee — Common black bee, p. 41. 

 Glands — ^Tubular or sack-like organs which form from elements taken from the 



blood a liquid called a secretion. Bees have several pairs of glands, p. 113. 

 Glassing — Covering or protecting sections of comb honey with glass. 

 Glucose — Reducing sugar, p. 146. 



Grood Candy — Candy made by mixing sugar and honey, p. 273. 

 Granulated Honey — Honey that has crystallized or candied, p. 282. 

 Grub — Larva of beetle, p. 78. 

 Guide Comb — Narrow piece of comb or starters fastened to top-bar of frame or 



section, p. 250. 

 Hatch— To issue from egg ; egg hatches, the brood develops and emerges from 



cell. 

 Hatching Brood — Incorrectly used to refer to bees coming from cells. 

 Heart^Cir dilating Organ ; in insects a tube along the back, p. 67. 

 Heath Bees — ^Variety of German bees from Luneberg Heath, Europe, p. 45. 

 Heddon Hive — Hive with divided brood chamber, the division being horizontal, p. 



188. 

 Heddon -Langstroth Hive — Langstroth hive as used by Heddon, p. 181. 



