INDEX. 



401 



common bee, 820 ; Dzterzon's oxperi- 

 meats with . 320 : frequent disturbances 

 abate nothmg n-om tho industry of, 

 32l (note) ; gonorol diffusion of, de- 

 sirable, 321 ; superior to common bee, 

 322, 824,325 ; poauoable disposition of 

 ^22 ; may readily bo introduced into 

 hives of commou bees, 322 ; furnishes 

 new means of studying tho habits of 

 boos, 322 ; tho purity of, can be pre- 

 sorvod, o22 ; charactor of, as tested by 

 Beriepsch, 324 ; number of quoons 

 obtained in one season, ft'om ono 

 queen, 324 ; ruraarlcablo fact in rela- 

 tion to hybrids, 324 (note) ; descrip- 

 tion of, by Busch, 324 ; Itadlkoffer's 

 account of, 325 ; how to introduce an 

 Italian queen to a stock of common 

 bees, 326 ; advantages of author's non- 

 swarmer m preserving tho Italian bee 

 pure, 326 ; how to produce abundance 

 of drones of, 327 ; precaution suggest- 

 ed when non-swarmer cannot be used, 

 327 ; queens of, safely moved in mov. 

 como hive, 327 ; introduction of, into 

 this country, important, 328 ; arrange- 

 ments to that end, 328 (note). 



Itinerating colonies, 305 (note 2^. 



Ignorance, the occasion of tho iDvention 

 of costly and useless hives, 209 (and 

 note). 



Increase of colonies, rapid, impractica- 

 ble, by natural swarming, 147 ; or by 

 dividing hives, 149 ; rapid, cautions 

 against, 175-178 ; rapid, incompatible 

 with large yield of surplus honey, 176 ; 

 a tenfold, jwssifefc, in mov. comb hive, 

 178; sure, not rapid, to be aimed at, 

 179 ; forming one new from two old 

 colonies best, and how effected, 180 ; 

 rapid, requires liberal feeding, 184, 



Inexperienced persons should not begin 

 bee-keeping on a large scale, 282. 



Indian name for honey-bee, 236, 



Industry taught by the bee, 69. 



Intemperate men compared to infatuated 

 bees, 278. 



IntercommuniCfition of bees in hives, im- 

 portant, 103, S36, 337 (and note), 339 

 (and note). 



Irving, Washington, his account of the 

 abundance of bees at tho West, 236 

 (note). 



Jansha, on impregnation of queen, 36. 

 Japanese , veneration for birds , 253 



(note) . 

 Jarring, disliked by bees, 96, 170, 309. 

 Jelly, royal, the food of immature 



queen, 63 : a secretion of the bees, 64 ; 



analysis of, 64, effect of, in developing 



larvae, 64, 191 : pollen necessary for 



its production, 197. 

 Johnson, M. T., the first American ob- 



server of tho fact that queenlees stocks 

 arc soon destroyed by the moth, 244 

 (note). 



Kaden, Mr., on over-stocking, 301. 



Killhig bees for honey, an invention of 

 the dark ages, 239 (note); more hu- 

 mane than to starve them, 238 ; not 

 necessary, 239. 



Kindness of bees at home, a lesson for 

 man, 312. 



King-bird, eats bees, 252. 



Kirby and Sponce on ants and aphides, 

 285. 



Kirtland,Dr. J. P., his letter on the in- 

 troduction of the bee-moth, 240; on 

 benefits of transferring stocks into 

 mov. comb hive, 284. 



Knight on honey-dews, 286. 



Kleine, Kev. Mr., on making bees rear 

 queens in selected cells, 191 ; his 

 method of preventing robberies among 

 bees, 265 (note); on feeding bees, 273; 

 on over-stocking, 301 ; on accustoming 

 the human system to the poison of 

 bees, 316 (note). 



Larvae of honey-bee, development of, 44 

 (PI. Xm. , Figs. 40, 41, 42) ; royal, 64 ; 

 perish without ventilation, 89 ; of bee- 

 moth, see bee-moth. Larvae of; of 

 honey bee, disease of, 259. 



Leidy, Dr. Joseph, his dissection of fertile 

 and drone-laying queens^ 34, 39, 213 

 (note); of a queen just impregnated, 

 126 (note). 



Light, bees will work when exposed to, 

 16, 205, -332 ; its sudden admission, 

 effect of, on bees, 168, 169 ; of day, 

 needed for operations about the hive, 

 167. 



Ligurian, or Italian, bee, 318 (note). 



Linden, or bass-wood tree, yields much 

 honey, 293 (and note). 



Liriodendron, yields much honey, 292. 



Locust, valuable for bees, 293. 



Lombard^ his interesting anecdote of 

 swarmmg, 308. 



Longfellow, ft. W., his Indian warrior's 

 description of the bee, 236. 



Loss of queen, 213-227 ; frequent, though 

 the queen is usually the list to perish 

 in any casualty, 213 ; when by old age, 

 bees prepare for fier successor, 213 ; 

 occurs oftenest when queen leaves 

 hive for impregnation, 213, 214 ; how 

 occasioned, by queens mistaking their 

 hives, 214, 215 ; bees, like hens in this 

 respect, 215 ; Judge FishbACk's pre- 

 ventive of, 216 ; author's preventive, 

 217 ; effect of, on stocks, 217 ; some- 



