524 GLOSSARY. 



Phenol— Pure carbolic acid, p. 479. 



Pincers — Wax jaws of hind legs, p. 153. 



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



from cell and others have not, p. 168. 

 Plain Sections — Sections with no inset or bee-way ; the edges are straight, 



p. 241. 

 Planta— Soles or bottom of feet, p. 150. 

 Poison-Sac — Sac at base of sting to hold the poison, p. 157. 

 Pollen — Male cell or element of flowers; bee-bread. 

 Pollen-Basket — Corbicula: cavity on posterior leg for carrying pollen, 



pp. 152, 186. 

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



legs of worker, on the inside, also pecten, p. 153. 

 Pollen-Hairs — Compound or webbed hairs of bees, used for collecting 



pollen, p. 7y. 

 Portico — Porch to hive, p. 210. 

 Pound Section — Section i}^ inches square, p. 242. 

 Prime Swarm — First swarm. 

 Prize Section — Section 63^ by 5'^ inches, p. 242. 

 Propolis — Bee-glue. 



Propolize — To cover with propolis, p. 190. 

 Prothorax — First joint of thorax, p. 78. 

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

 Pufl-Ball — A large fungus, which, when pressed, sends out myriads of 



spores ; it is sometimes used to subdue bees. 

 Pulvilli — Adhesive disks on the last joint of an iasect's lejr, p. 150. 

 Pupa — Third stage of insects, that between larva and imago; also called 



nymph, p. 99. 

 Pygidium — Last joint of abdomen. 



Queen — Mother-bee, p. 102. 



Queen-Cage — Cage for introducing queen, p. 312. 



Queen-Cell — Cell in which queen is reared, pp. 100, lU. 



Queenless — Having no queen. 



Queen-Rearing — Rearing of queens, p. 273. 



Queen Register — Card to show state of hive as to queen, p. 291. 



Queen's Voice — Noise made by queen like piping ; true voice, p. 168. 



Queen-Yard — Box with perforated zinc, to keep a clipped queen from 



being lost when she comes ou t with a swarui ; also called queen-trap. 

 Quilt — Cover for brood-frames, consisting of two cloths containing wool 



or cotton sewed together, p. 223. 

 Quinby Hive — Large Huber style of hive, p. 335. 

 Quinby Frame — Large frame 1S}.{ by IIJ4 inches, p. 327. 

 Quincunx — Where things in rows alternate, thus, . ' * 



Rabbet — Where one side of the edge of a board is planed down for a short 

 distance, p. 216. 



Race — Breed. Where a variety has been closely bred so long as to trans- 

 mit its peculiarities to its offspring. Race is a natural breed, p. 52. 



Rack — Crate or case; section-rack. 



Rectal Glands — Glands in the rectum, p. 146. 



Rectum — Large intestine, p. 146. 



Rendering Wax — Melting and cleaning wax, 367. 



Reversing — Inverting; turning bottom up, pp. 229, 339. 



Rhomb — Four equal sided figure, two of whose opposite angles are equal 

 and acute, the others equal and obtuse. 



