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INDEX. 



Honey-Dews, origin of, 371 ; on 

 what plants chiefly found, 373 ; 

 often yield much honey, but do 

 not occur every year, 374. 



Honey-Hornets, Mexican, (note) 

 63. 



Honey, Surplus, facilities for se- 

 curing, in mov. comb hive, 104, 

 376 ; receptacles for, in mov. 

 comb hive, 104; receptacles for, 

 how to prevent Queen from en- 

 tering, 203 ; how to prepare box 

 for sending, to market, 377 ; 

 yield of, diminished by using 

 small boxes, 378 ; how to drive 

 bees from receptacles of, 378 ; 

 may be taken in glass vessels, 

 379 ; wood-cut of box for, PI. XI, 

 Fig 24; stocks when producing, 

 should not be disturbed, 381 ; 

 receptacles for, when, to give to 

 bees, 460, and when to remove 

 from hive, 462. 



Honey- Water, objectionable for 

 subduing bees, 191. 



Hornets, fecundation of, 37 ; in- 

 jure fruit, 97 ; how to check in- 

 crease of, 97 ; torpid in winter, 

 114, 137. 



Horses, sweaty, very ofTensive to 

 bees, 410, 414. 



Horticulturists, prejudice of some 

 against hoaey-bees, without any 

 cause, 96. 



Houses, folly of thin, in cold cli- 

 mates, 124 ; ventilation of, neg- 

 lected, 128. 



Huber, Francis, tribute to, 34-36 ; 

 discovered how queens are im- 

 pregnated, 36 ; experiments of, 

 on secretion of wax by bees, 78 ; 

 discovered whence bees gather 

 propolis, 86 ; discovered how 

 hives are ventilated, 125 ; leaf- 

 hive of, not well adapted to arti- 

 ficial swarming, 173 ; mistakes 

 reason why bees enter cells, on 

 opening of hive, 192 ; found 24 

 Queen cells in a hive, 215; 

 thought there was a differeece 



between wax-workers and nurs- 

 ing workers, 218; on watchful- 

 ness of bees against moth, 244; 

 on ravages of honey-eating 

 moth, 265 ; on acute sense of 

 smell, of bees, 415. 



Huish, objections of, against Hu- 

 ber, 76. 



Human flace, remarlrs on unity of, 

 469. 



Hunger impairs fertility of queen- 

 bee, 361. 



Hunter, Dr. discovers pollen in 

 stomachs of immature bees, 90. 



Hurling bees, important to avoid, 

 98. 



Hyginus, his account of royal jel- 

 ly, 172. 



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Impregnation of queen bees, 34- 

 38, 469 ; effect on queens, of re- 

 tarding, 39 ; remarkable law of, 

 in Aphides, 46 ; why it takes 

 place, out* of hive, 58. 



Italian Honey-Bees, 440-457 ; no- 

 ticed by Aristotle and Virgil, 440, 

 and by Columella, 477; Mr. 

 Wagner's letter on , 441-453 ; 

 Capt. Baldenstein gives first ac- 

 count of, to the Bienenzeitung, 

 441 ; cells of, same as those of 

 common kind, 432 ; value of, 

 in studyingphysiology of honey- 

 bee, 443, 447 ; Dzierzon's ex- 

 periments with, 444-448 ; in 

 what parts of Italy, found, 444 ; 

 superior productiveness of, 443 ; 

 445, 449, 553 ; Dzierzon's esti- 

 mate of value of, 446 ; less in- 

 clined to sting than common 

 kind, 446, 449, 477, and not so 

 liable to be robbed, 446 ; how 

 to change common stocks, into, 

 446 ; description of queen, work- 

 ers and drones of, 447 ; breed 

 of, can be kept pure, 447 ; keep- 

 ing breed of, pure, Dzierzon's 

 method of, 448; Author's, 454, 



