444 Glossary, 



Hill's Device— Curved sticks used to raise cloth a little from the frames in wintei-. 



Hive — Box or receptacle for bees, p. ITIi. 



Hiving — Removing a swarm of bees from cluster to hive, p. 249. 



Hiving' Basket or Box — Basket or box used in hiving swarms, p. 262. 



Holy Land Bees — Yellow bees from Southern Palestine, p. 45. 



Honey — Nectar digested by the bees, p. 145. 



Iloney-Bee — Apis Mellifica, the domestic bee, p. 82. 



Honey Bag— Honey stomach, p. 117. 



Honey Board— Board between brood chamber and section crate, p. 183. 



Honey Box — Box for surplus comb honey. 



Honey Comb — Fabric that holds tlie honey and brood, p. 152. 



Honey Dew— Nectar from insects like Aphides and bark lice, or from extra floral 



glands, p. 335. 

 Honey Extractor — Machine for extracting honey, p. 276. 

 Honey Gate— Faucet to draw extracted honey from an extractor or barrel. It is 



closed instantly by a slide or gate. 

 Horey Knife — ^A knife for uncapping honey, p. 280. 

 Honey Sac— Honey stomach, p. 117. 

 Honey Slinger— Honey extractor, p. 276. 

 Honey Stomach — Honey sac where bee carries honey, p. 117. 

 House Apiary — Building frost-proof where bees are kept continually, p. 398. 

 Hungarian Bee— Variety of the black bee from Hungary, p. 38. 



Hybrid — Properly an animal which is a cross between two different species, A hy- 

 brid bee is a cross between two different races ; all the bees except the drones 



from an Italian queen mated to a black drone will be hybrids ; the drones will 



be pure if the queen is ( see Dzierzon theory ). 

 Hymettus— A mountain of Greece famed for its delicious honey. 

 Hypopharynx— Membrane or curtain connecting the base of the mouth organs, p. 



112. 

 Ileum— Small intestine, p. 120. * 



Imago— The mature insect ; the last or winged stage of an insect, p. 81. 

 Intestine— Digestive tube beyond the stomach, p. 120. 

 Introducing— Method of making bees accept a strange queen, p. 265. 

 Introducing Cage — Cage for introducing a queen, p. 267. 

 Inverting — ^Turning a hive, section, crate or frame bottom up. Reversing is also 



used, p. 257. 

 Italian Bee — ^A yellow race from Italy. Every worker bee has three well marked 



yellow bands, pp. 42, 261. 

 Italianizing — Changing bees from some other race to Italians, p. 261. 

 Krainer Bees — Bees from Krain, Austria ; same as Carniolans, p. 45. 

 Labium — Under lip of an insect, p. 52. 

 Labrum^Upper lip of an insect, p. 51. 



Lamp Nursery — Tin double walled box used for rearing queens, p. 241. 

 Langstroth Frame — Adopted by Mr. Langstroth for his hive ; size 17^ by 9J^, p. 



192. 

 Langstroth Hive — L. Hive ; Hive with frame suspended in a case or box ; invented 



by Rev. L. L. Langstroth, p. 176. 

 Ligula — End of labium ; the tongue in bees, pp. 52, 112. 



Ligurian Bee — Same as Italian ; name from Liguria, a province in Italy, p. 42- 

 [fining Bees — Noting direction of flight to findliee-tree, etc., p. 223. 

 Maggot — Footless larva of two winged flies ; often applied to any footless larva;. 

 Maiden Swarm — First swarm. 

 Mandibles — Main jaws of insects, p. 53. 

 Manipulation — Handling. 

 Marriage Flight — Mating of queen, p. 92. 

 Mat — Flexible cover to place over brood frames, made of slats, straw, etc., pp. 187, 



198. 

 -Maturing Brood — Where the bees are just emerging from the cells. 

 Maxillae — The second or under jaws of insects, p. 53. 

 Mel Extractor — Honey extractor, p. 276. 

 Meliput — Honey extractor, p, 276. 

 Mentum — Second Joint of labium or under Up, p. 52. 

 Metal Corners—Tins to fasten and unite corners of frames. 

 Micropyle — Openings in eggs where sperm cells enter, p. 77, 

 Miller — Moth, which is the more proper word. 

 Mismated — Not purely mated. 



