INDEX; 



409 



Woather, unpleasant, dolays of prevents 

 swarming, 112. 



West India honey, as beo-food, 256 

 (note), 270. 



Wetherell. Dr. C. M., his analysis of 



royal jolly, 64. 

 - Whoaton, Levi, on upward ventilation, 

 276 (note 1); on wintering bees, S46 

 (note 1). 



Wbito clover, soe Clover, white. 



Weige!, Kev. Mr., first rocommond^d, 

 candy, as bee-food, 272. 



Wheeler, George, on ancient bar-hives, 

 210 (note). 



Willow, varieties of, abound in honey 

 and pollen, 292. 



Wildman, Thomas, feats of, in handling 

 bees, 808 ; states the fact that fear 

 disposes colonies to unite, 203 ^note) ; 

 bis approach to modern moaes of 

 taming bees, 204 (note) ; on the queen's 

 odor, 226. 



Winds, bees should be protected against, 

 103, 186, 279. 



Wings of queens, may be made to mark 

 their age, 223. 



Winter, wasps and hornets, but not 



- bees, torpid in, 109, 335 ; quantity of 

 honey needed by a stock in, 274 ; 

 bees eat less in, when kept quiet, 335, 

 355, 358 ; bees should be protected 

 from winds of, 337 ; bees in, if out of 

 doors, should be allowed to fly, 337 ; 

 how to ventdate hives in, 338 ; snow 

 in, when injurious to bees, 338 (note 

 1); bees need water in, 342-346; when 

 honey is candied in, bees need water, 

 342-344 ; disturbing bees in, injurious, 

 S47, 355 ; fewer bees die in, when 

 hives are in clamps, than when in 

 othei> special depositories, 358 ; tem- 

 porary removal of colonies in, to a 

 warm room, 341, 362. 



Wintering bees, 335-361; objections to, in 

 the open air, 335: how to get honey 

 for, in centre of hive, 336 ; bee pas- 

 sages in comb for, 337 (and note 1), 

 339 (and note) ; in a dry vault or cel- 



lar, 848 : in special repositories, 848- 

 360 ; further experiments in, needed^, 

 860 ; requires caution in removing 

 them from winter quarters, 361. 



Wives, a friendly word to, 220. 



Wood-cuts, explanation of, 11, 371. 



Women, American, suffer from bad ven- 

 tilation, 92. 



Worker-comb, size of the cells of, 74 ; all 

 good, can bo" used in mov. comb hive, 

 130 ; not built unless bees have a 

 mature queen, 149. 



Worker-bees, are females, with undevel- 

 loped ovaries, 29 • when fertile^ their 

 progeny always drones, 36 ; Huber's 

 theory concerning fertile, 37, 55; some- 

 times exalted to be queens, 37 ; one 

 raised from a drone egg, by Dr. D5n- 

 hofF, 41 : incapable of impregnation, 

 43 ; wood-cuts of, PI. XH., Figs. 35, 36 ; 

 number of, in swarm, 54; author's 

 opinion respecting fertile, 55 ; fertile 

 prefer to lay in drone cells, 55; honey- 

 bag, 56; representation of, PI. XVII- , 

 Fig. 54, A.; use of proboscis of, 56 ; 

 wood-cut of proboscis of, PI. XVI., 

 Fig. 51 ; pollen basket, 56 ; sting, 56 ; 

 wood-cut of, PI. XVII. , Fig. 53 ; loss of 

 sting, fatal, 67 ; do all the work of the 

 hive, 58 ; tneir age, 58 ; lesson of in- 

 duetry from, 59 ; attention to royal 

 cells , 62 ; wood-cut of abdomen of, PI. 

 XVI., Fig. 52 ; two kinds of, described 

 by Huber, 192 (note 2) j differently 

 occupied in different periods of life, 

 194 ; impulse of, to gather honey, un- 

 developed in early life, 195. ' 



Worms, see Bee-moth, larvse of, 



Wormwood, use of,, for driving away 

 robbing bees, 265 (noteji. 



Wurtemberg, number of its colonies .of 

 bees, 304. 



ZoUickoffer, H. M., his account of bees 

 building combs on a tree, 118. 



