Glossary, 445 



Motli^All scale-wing-ed insects except butterflies. 



Moth Larva — Immature moth. 



Moth-Miller — Incorrect term often used for moth. 



Moth Trap — Trap for catching moths. 



Movable Frame Hive— Lang-stroth hive, p. 176. 



Nadir — The under story of a two story hive ; a wide eke, p. 189. 



Nectar — Sweet substance, as the liquid in nectaries of flowers, p. 145. 



Nectaries — ^Nectar glands of flowers. 



Nerves— White threads which connect organs to convey impressions or impulses, 



p. 65. 

 Neuter — Incorrect name for worker bees ; they are not neuters but undeveloped 



females, p. 107. 

 New Idea Hive — Long one story hive with many frames, 

 Non-Swarming Hive — A purely ideal hive, supposed to prevent swarming. 

 Normal — Usual ; regular. 



Nucleus — Plural nuclei ; miniature colony of bees for queen rearing, p. 236. 

 Nurse Bees — Young bees or ones that feed the brood, p. 138. 

 Nursery — Device for rearing queens. See lamp nursery, p. 241. 

 Nymph — An insect in the pupa state ; the immature bee in cell that is the form of 



adult bee is a nymph, p. 79. 

 Observatory Hive — Hive witli glass sides, so that bees can be seen without dis- 

 turbing them, p. 203. 

 Ocelli — Simple eyes on epicranium, usually three, p. 59. 

 CEsophagus — Tube leading from pharynx to honey stomach, p. 70. 

 Open Section s^^ections that do not touch on sides, p. 205. 

 Ovary— Essential organs of the female, where the eggs g^row, p. 75. 

 Over-stocking — Where more bees are kept than a locality can supply with a full 



harvest of nectar. 

 Oviduct— Tube for passage of egg from ovary, p. 75. 

 Palestine Bees— Race of yellow oees found in Southern Syria ; the so-called Holy 



Land bees, p. 45. 

 Paraffine — Wax-like crystalline substance used to coat barrels and prevent leakage; 



one of the products of crude petroleum. 

 Parasite — An or^nism that feeds upon another, p. 27. 

 Parent Colony— ^he colony from which a swarm has issued. 

 Paraelossae^Short appendages at base of tongue, p. 112. 

 Parthenogenesis — Reproduction without males, pp. 94, 106. 

 Pasturage — Plants from which food is secured, p. 332. 

 Perforated Zinc — Zinc with holes cut so worker bees can pass, but drones and 



queens can not, p. 183. 

 Pharynx— Throat or back of the mouth, p. 70- 

 Phenol — ^Pure carbolic acid, p. 406. 

 Piping of Queens — Noise made by young queens when one has emerged from cell 



and others have not, p. 142. 

 Poison Sac — Sac at base of sting to hold the poison, p. 131. 

 Pollen — Male cell or element of flowers ; bee bread, pp. 126, 159. 

 Pollen Basket— Corbicula; cavity on posterior leg for carrying pollen, p. 126. 

 Pollen Combs — Rows of hairs on first tarsus of second and third pairs of legs of 



worker, on the inside, p. 126. 

 Pollen Hairs— Compound or webbed hairs of bees, used for collecting pollen, p. 123. 

 Portico — Porch to hive, p. 178. 

 Pound Section— Section 4^ inches square, p. 205. 

 Prime Swarm — First swarm. 



Prize Section— Sectioned by 5Ji inches square, p. 205. 

 Propolis — Bee glue, p. 162. 

 Propolize — ^To cover with propolis. 

 Prune— To cut out undesirable comb, as drone or old. 

 Puff Ball — A large fungus which, when pressed, sends out myriads of spores ; it 



is sometimes used to subdue bees, 

 Fulvilli— Adhesive disks on the last joint of an insect's leg, p. 125. 

 Pupa — ^Third stage of insects, tliat between larva and imago ; also called nymph, 



p. 79. 

 Queen — Mother bee, p. 82. 



Queen Cage — Cage for introducing queen, p. 242. 

 Queen Cell— Cell m which queen is reared, p. 234. 

 Queenless — Having no queen. 



