S18 GLOSSARY. 



Bee-Gum— Section ot hollow tree used as a bee-hive. 



Bee-Hat — Hat so arranged as to prevent bees (rem stinging the face, p. 344. 



Bee-Hawlc — Dragon fly, p. 497. 



Bee-Hive — Box for bees. See bee-gum and skep, p. 207. 



Bee-House — House where bees are kept, where bee-work is done, or bees 



wintered, p. 468. 

 Bee-Keeper — One who keeps bees ; apiarist. 



Bee-Line — Straight line, lilse the route of bee from ileld to hive, p. 262. 

 Bee-Louse — Braula Coeca, p. 499. 

 Bee-Martin — King or bee bird, p. 508. 

 Bee-Master — English, bee-keeper. 

 Bee-Moth — Galleria mellonella, formerly G. cereana, moth that feeds on 



wax, etc., p. 482. 

 Bee-Pasturage — Honey-plants, p. 389. 



Bee-Plants — Plants which secrete nectar, and so are visited by bees, p. 389. 

 Bee-Space — Space that will j ust allow a bee to pass : it is three-sixteenths 



of an inch. A double bee-space, three-eighths o( an inch minus, is 



the space that bees do not fill with brace-combs or glue. 

 Beeswax — Secretion of the bee from which comb is fashioned, p. 176. 

 Bee-Tent — Tent covering hive and bee-keeper, pp. 332, 351. In England, 



tent for lectures on bees. 

 Bee-tree— A hollow tree in which bees breed and store, p. 262. 

 Bee-Veil — Veil for protecting face while working with bees, p. 344. 

 Bell-Glass — Glass vessel used for surplus comb-honey storing. 

 Bingham-Knife — Uncapping knife with beveled edge, p. 32.5. 

 Bingham-Smoker — Bee-smoker with open draft, p. 348. 

 Bisulphide of Carbon — Valuable insecticide, pp. 880, 487. 

 Black Bee— Common or German race of bees, p. 52. 

 Black Brood— Diseased brood, but not foul brood, p. 482. 

 Bottom-Board— Floor of hive, pp. 215, 217, 326. 

 Box-Hive — Plain box in which bees are kept, p. 207. 

 Box-Honey — Comb honey stored in boxes. 

 Brace-Combs — Incorrectly called " burr-combs." Small columns of wax 



connecting brood-combs, p. 219. 

 Brain- Nerve mass in head of insects, p. 82. 

 Breed — Race ; Italian breed, p. 53. 

 Breeding-In — Close breeding, as when a queen is fecundated by one of 



her own drones. 

 Bridal Trip — Flight of queen to meet drone, p. 112. 

 Brimstoning — Killing bees with sulphur. Now happily obsolete, pp. 380, 



487. 

 Brimstone— The same as sulphur, pp. 3S0, 4S7. 



Broad-Frame — Wide frame for holding sectiODS, p. 244. 

 Brood — Immature bees, or bees yet in the cell, p. 98. 

 Brood-Comb — Comb used for breeding, p. 179. 

 Brood-Nest — Space in hive used for breeding. 

 Brood-Bearing — Rearing of brood. 



Brown Bee — A supposed variety of the common black bee, p. 52. 

 Bumble-Bee — Our large wild bee or' humble-bee, p. 40. 

 Burr-Combs — Small pieces of wax built above the top-bars of the frames, 



p. 219. 



Candied Honey — Honey crystallized or granulated, p. 175. 

 Cane Sugar — Common sugar, or the sugar of nectar, p. 17'' 

 Cap — Box to shut over top of a hive, p. 220. 



