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INDEX. 



Salt, fondness of bees for, 272. 



Scent, -see smell and odor. 



Schirach, on artificial rearing of queens, 

 148. 



Scouts sent out by swarms to find a new 

 home, 117 ; necessity of, 118. 



Scraper for cleaning the bottom-hoard 

 of mov. comb hive, 347. 



Scudamore, Dr., on many swarms clus- 

 tering together, 137. 



Secret recipe for keeping stocks strong, 

 sham vendor of, 238. 



Scholtz, Mr. , on wintering bees in clamps, 

 348-360. 



Sex of bees, determined by queen, 38. 



Shakspeare's description of the Hive, 

 268. 



Shrimplin, experiment of, showing im- 

 pregnation to take place fh tiie air, 

 127. 



Sick persons, the care of, beneficial to 

 man, 313. 



Siebold, Professor, extracts from his 

 Parthenogenesis, 126 (note) ; his dis- 

 section of spermatheca, 127 (note) ; 

 found spermatozoa in worker, but not 

 in drone eggs, 41 ; on bee life;' 144 

 (note); recommends movable frames, 

 321 (not 2). 



Sight of bees, acute, for distant objects, 

 117. 



Signs of swarming. 111 ; of queenless 

 colonies, 219, 224; of presence of moths 

 in hive, 242. 



Size of hives, 329-332. 



Smell, of hives, in gathering season, 177 

 ^note)- strange bees distinguished by, 

 203; thelsame, to be given in uniting 

 colonies, 203 ; sense of, in bees, acute, 

 313 ; of their own poison, irritates bees, 

 314. 



Smoke, importance of, in subduing bees, 

 27,154; its use in forced swarming, 

 165, 168, 169 ; its use of, very ancient, 

 210 ; drives clustered bees inside of 

 hive, 281 ; useful in removing surplus 

 honey, 289. 



Smothering bees, cautions for prevent- 

 hig,281. 



Snails, sometimes covered by bees with 

 propolis, 78. 



Snow, bees perish on, when carrying out 

 their dead, 98 ; sometimes fatal to 

 bees, 338 (note J.); often harmless to 

 bees, 361 (note 1). 



Solidago, see Golden Rod. 



Sontag, F. , on meal as a substitute for 

 pollen, 84. 



Spare honey, see Honey, surplus. 



Spermatheca, of the queen-bee, wood- 

 out and description of, 35 ; PI. XVIII., 

 Fig. 55 ; dissection of, 34, 126 (note), 

 213 (note). 



Spermatozoa, found in spermatheca of 

 queen-bee, 34, 126 (note). ^ 



Sphinx Atropos, see Moth, Death-head. 



Spinola, described the Italian bee, 318 

 (note). 



Spring, importance of sun-heat in, to 

 hives, 101 ; feeble stocks, in, unprofit- 

 able, 177 ; examination of bees, in, im- 

 portant, 221 ; colonies should be fed, 

 in, 267, 268. 



Sprinkling bees, should not be done to 

 excess, }70 ; cools their robbing fren- 

 zy, 203. 



Starving of bees, often happens when 

 there is honey in the hive, 336, 342. 



Sting, Sevan's description of, 56 ; PI. 

 XVII. , Fig. 53 ; microscopic appear- 

 ance of, 57 ; loss of, fatal to bees, 67 ; 

 loss of, in stinging, a benefit to man, 

 58 ; of queen, 65 : wood-cut of queen's, 



PI. xvm. 



Sting, poison of, dangerous to some, 313 ; 

 remedies for, 314-317 ; smell of poison 

 of, irritating to bees, 314; instant ex- 

 traction of, important, 314 ; rubbing 

 the wound made by, should be avoid- 

 ed, 314; Mr. Wagner's remedy for, 315; 

 different remedies answer for different 

 persons, 315 : human system may be 

 inured'to, 316 (note); amusing remedy 

 for, 316 (note). 



Stinging, bees when gorged, disincUned 

 to, 25, 169, 308 ; little risk of, unless 

 bees are irritated, 28, 168, 170 ; risk of, 

 diminished by use of mov. comb hive, 

 209 ; diseased bees Inclined to, 310 ; 

 risk of, not increased by proximity to 

 the hive, 211 (note) ; not to be feared 

 from a bee away from its hive, 312 ; 

 efiiict of, sometimes dangerous, 312 ; 

 Italian bee less inclined to, than com- 

 mon bee, 322. 324. 



Stocks , of bees (see also colonies of bees) 



enfeebled by " in-and-in breeding," 

 54 ; strong, will rapidly fill empty 

 comb, 71 ; often lose young queens 

 after swarming, 141 ; fewer in this 

 country than there ^were years ago, 

 145; often refuse to 'swarm, 139, 145 ; 

 147; new, work better than old, 163; 

 if weak in Spring, usually unprofitable, 

 and sometimes require to be fed, 177 ; 

 the less disturbed, the better for sur- 

 plus honey, 180 ; best mode for rapid 

 increase of, 184 ; doubling, trebling, 

 &c., 185 ; subject to»great loss of bees 

 in storms, 186 ; rapid increase of, hope- 

 less in vicinity of sugar-houses, &c., 



199 ; hostility of, to strange queens, 



200 ; when united, the bees should be 

 gorged with honey, 204 ; will adhere to 

 the hive when the queen is lost, if sup- 

 plied with brood-comb, 218 ; queenless, 

 should be broken up, if not supplied 

 with a queen or brood-comb, 218 ; 

 Spring-care of, 221 ; healthy, destroy 

 the drones when forage is scarce, 224 : 

 weak, with unc'overed comb, Infestea 

 by moths, 242 ; suflering from hunger. 



