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INDEX. 



Piping of queens, an indication of after- 

 swarming, 121. 

 Plantain, a remedy for bee-sti;igs, 315. 

 Plum-tree, a source of honey, 292. 

 Poison of bees, smell of, strong and irri- 

 tating to bees, 314 j eflfect of, on the 

 eye, 314 (note) ; remedies for, 314- 

 317 ; effect of, when taken into the 

 mouth, 315 ; cold water the best rem- 

 edy for, 315; a homoeopathic remedy, 

 315 (note) ; the human system can be 

 inured to, 316 (note). 



Poisonous honey, and how to remove its 

 injurious qualities, 287. 



Pollen, or bee-bread, 80-87 ; found in 

 stomachs of wax -makers, 80 ; may aid 

 in secretion of wax, 80 ; whence ob- 

 tained, 80 ; food of immature bees, as. 

 shown by Ruber's experiments, 80 ; 

 author's, to the same effect, 81 ; Gun- 

 delach's opinion of, 81 ; useful in se- 

 cretion of wax, 82 ; hees prefer fresh 

 to old, 82 ; in mov. comb hives, excess 

 of, in old stocks , can he given lo others , 

 83 ; how gathered and stored by bees, 

 83 ; hees gathering, aid in impregnating 

 plants, 83 ; bees collect, only from one 

 kind ol^ flower at a time,'83 ; wheat and 

 rye meal a substitute for, 84 ; neces- 

 sary for the production of wax and jelly , 

 197 ; the gathering of, by bees, indi- 

 cates a fertile queen in the hive, 219 

 (and note). 



Pollen -basket, on leg of bee, 56. 



Poppy, white, a remedy for bee-stings, 

 315. 



Posel, discovery of, on use of sperma- 

 theca, 36 (note). 



Proboscis of a worker, 56 ; wood-cuts of, 

 Plates Xm., XVI., Figs. 63, 51. 



Profits of bee-keeping, Dzierzon's expe- 

 rience in. 21 ; Sydserfi's calculation of, 

 146 (note) ; dependent on strong stocks, 

 176 ; difficulty of estimating, 306 

 (note) ; safe estimate of, 306. 



Propolis, 76-80; whence obtained, 76; 

 curious sources of, in Mexico, 77 ; its 

 uses, 77 ; bee-moth lays her eggs in, 

 78 ; curious anecdotes, illustrating its 

 uses, 78. 



Prussia, bee-keeping encouraged by gov- 

 ernment of, 320 (note). 



Pupa, or bee-nymph, 45 ; heat required 

 for its development, 46. 



Punk, smoke of, subdues bees, 27, 154. 



Queen-bee, wood-cut of (natural and 

 magnified size), PL Sn., Figs. 31, 32 ; 

 wood-cut o f ovar ies and spermatheca 

 of, 35, PI. XV ill. ; description of, 30 ; 

 the mother of the whole colony, 30 ; 

 affectionate treatment of, by the other 

 bees, 31; effect of her loss on the 

 colony, 81 ; her fertility, 32 ; how her 



eggs are fecundated, 34-41; Huber 

 discovers impregnation of, to take 

 place out of hive, 34; dissection of, by 

 Dr. Leidy, 34, 126 (note), 213 (note) ; 

 effect of retarded impregnation on, 

 36 ; she determines the sex of the egg, 

 38 ; Dr. Leidy's dissection of a drone- 

 laying, 38, 126 (note), 213 (note) ; at- 

 tempt of bees to rear, from a drone- 

 egg, 39 ; account of a drone laying, 

 afterwards laying worker eggs, 4U ; 

 a drone laying, with shrivelled wings, 

 40; Italian, impregnated by common 

 drones, produce Italian drones, while 

 the females are a cross, 41, 324 (note 

 2); becomes incapable of impregna- 

 tion, 42 ; process of laying, 43 ; devel- 

 opment of, in pupa state, 46; enmity 

 of, to each other, 46, 120, 205-207 ; can 

 regulate development of eggs in her 

 ovaries, 47; disposition hy^ of super- 

 numerary eggs, 48; fertility of, de- 

 creases with age, 49, 223; longevity 

 of, 49,58; when superannuated, lays 

 only drone-eggs, 49; why impreg- 

 nated in the air, 53; office of, no sine- 

 cure, 58 : Italian, use of, to show how 

 long workers live, 59 ; manner of rear- 

 ing, 62 ; larvae of, effects of royal jelly 

 on, 63; process of rearing in special 

 emergency, 66; development of, an 

 argument against infidelity, 68 ; old, 

 leads first swarm, 111 ; often lost in 

 swarming, 112 ; loss of, in swarming, 

 causes hees to return to parent stock, 

 113 ; how to prevent, from deserting 

 new hive, 115 ; influence of, in causing 

 bees to cluster, 117 ; prevented by 

 bees from killing inmates of royal 

 cells, 121 ; piping of, 121 ; several 

 sometimes accompany after-swarms, 

 122 ; emerges from her cell mature, 

 122 ; young more active on wing than 

 old, 123 ; young often reluctant to 

 leave hive, 123 ; young, does not 

 leave for impregnation till estabhshed 

 as sole head, 51, 125; her precautions 

 to regain her hive, 125 ; never molest- 

 ed by drones in hive, 127 (note) ; 

 begins laying two days after impreg- 

 nation, 128 ; lays mostly worker-eggs 

 the first year, 128; never stings, ex- 

 cept in combat with, other queens, 

 136,204; alacrity of, in entering hive 

 for new swarm, 136 : young, often lost 

 after swarming, 141 ; her loss easily 

 remedied by mov. comb hive, 341 ; 

 unfertile, difflcult'to remove in com- 

 mon hives, 141 ; when immature, bees 

 do not build w«rker-comb, 149 ; sel- 

 dom enters , side-apartments, 152; 

 signs indicating her presence or ab- 

 sence in forced swarms, 158 ; supply 

 of scaled, for forced swarming, how to 

 secure, 166 ; how to cut sealed ones 

 from comb, 166 ; fertile, deprived of 



