INDEX. 



573 



Stahala on the language ot bees 34 



Stanley extractor 469 



Standard Langstroth frame. .. .147 



Starvation 329, 331 



Statistics 424, 425 



Sting 34, 37 



bees living wittiout 37 



can wound after removal. 38 



effects of the 38,207,208 



fear of the 200 



left in the wound 37 



of queen 49 



not easily withdrawn by 



the bee . . 37 

 " remedies for the wounds 



of the.. 207 



Stomach 28 



mouth 28 



Stone on safe wintering 348 



Store cells 107 



" bees building few. 



107, 108 

 Stories, defects of full upper . . 



448, 458 

 " half, for extracting. .. .458 

 " surplus equalizing in 



upper. .463 



Straight combs 157, 221,229, 385 



Strained honey 453, 454 



Straw hives 132, 177 



" for protection 350,352 



" mat 173,352 



" " frame for making 173 



Stupefying bees 286 



Sturtevant 351 



Suffocation 181, 182 



Sugar candy 334 



" for wintering 344 



" loaf 335 



" syrup 334 



Sulphur for moths 498, 499 



Supers 174 



" for comb honey .... 448, 449 

 " for extracted honey. .. .458 



Superstition 113 



Swammerdam 40, 185 



" on the moth. . . . 



489, 492 

 " " ovaries. . 57 



" tribute to 15 



Swarming, artificial, see Artificial. 



fever 237 



" natural 21 1 



causes ot. . . .236 

 " " excessive ....235 



' " " preparations 



for . . 21 4 

 '* " out of season.211 



" " prevention of.23 4 



" " stimulated 



236, 237 

 by 

 small hives, 



156, 457 

 " '* when raising 



comb honey. 

 240, 241, 442 



Swarming, with a virgin queen . 



230, 232 



" without a queen 214 



with several queens. .232 



Swarms absconding 233 



" catching the queen of.. 225 



" comb guides for 221 



" easily handled 191 



" feeding 229 



first 213 



" hived on worker comb. 



220,221 

 " " on comb-foundation 



221 



hiving 219 



" mixing 226 



" on a trunk 224 



primary 213 



" " with a young 



queen. .230 



" sack for 223 



" secondary 230 



" selecting an alighting 



place. .218 

 " several hived together.. 



226, 227 



third 233 



" transporting 328 



" waiting for scouts 216 



" weight of 239 



" with several queens. .. .232 



" " two queens 227 



Syrian bees 46, 293, 299 



Syrup 334, 336 



T Super 449 



Taming bees 191 



Tanging 215 



Tarsus 22 



Telling the bees 114, 115 



Thickness of cells 104 



Thomson, quotations from. .403, 429 



Thorax 22 



Thorley on stupefying bees.... 286 



Tidd on the moth 490,495,497 



Tin cans for feeding 332 



Tin vessels for honey 521 



" roots , . .175 



Toads 505 



Tongue 20, 21 



length of 22, 400 



Tools to extract honey. . .463, 465 



" to handle bees 



193, 197, 202, 203, 318 



" to transfer bees 313 



Top and bottom bars of frames. .159 

 Townley on mailing queens. . . .324 



Trachea 31,32 



Traps 89, 240 



" tor moths 502 



Transferring colonies 309 



" " Heddon method 



of 315 



" queen cells 269 



Transporting bees 306, 327 



Triangular guide 157 



