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, 16 

 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? 317 



" 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'Spices 527 



Painting hives 176 



" different colors. .306 



Paley on the sting 36 



Palteau hive 135 



Palpi 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, 441 



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 afterswarms 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, 2S4 



" beginning to lay 65 



best conditions to raise... 



261, 281 



" cages 283. 284, 325 



" clipping wings of . . . .225, 226 

 " contents of spermatheca of 5G 

 " dejections, licked hy work- 

 ers. . 18 



" description of 42. 48 



" destitute of nursing gland'^ 16 

 " dilTerence in prolificness of 66 



" does not govern 41 



duration of development of 



48, 50 

 " " " transforma- 



tions of . . 92 



