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INDEX. 



ing prevented by confining, 179, 

 201, 485; how to lell whether 

 artificial swarm has one, 189 ; 

 an artificial swarm will accept a 

 strange one, 189 ; how to have, 

 on hand, for every new colony, 

 190 ; not so easily caught, when 

 beeb are smoked, 192 ; how to 

 seize safely, 197 ; must not be 

 kept long without food, 197 ; 

 how to clip wings of, 200 ; when 

 very old, should be killed, 200 ; 

 want of, in hive, may cause ex- 

 cess of pollen, 201 ; may be pre- 

 vented from entering spare 

 honey boxes, 203 ; danger of 

 uniting colonies, having ferule 

 and unfertile, 213, 311 ; conjec- 

 tures respecting artificial rearing 

 of, 218 ; proper position of hive 

 containing unfertile, 225, 291, 

 295; first attempt of bees in 

 artificial rearing of, sometimes 

 fails, 226 ; fertility of, repressed, 

 by want of cells for eggs, 227 ; 

 size of, varies with accommoda- 

 tions for laying, 228 ; great fer- 

 tility of, ill large and well pro- 

 tected hives, 232 ; indisposition 

 of to sling, necessary to safety 

 of, 233 ; a strange one, not im- 

 mediately welcomed by a queen- 

 less hive. 236 ; loss of, exposes 

 hives to be robbed, 236, 264 ; 

 one, made to supply a number 

 of hives with eggs for raising 

 queens, 239 ; when lost, stock 

 liable to be destroyed by moth, 

 261; when lost, bees will not re- 

 sist intrusions of moth, 262 ; sa- 

 gacity of moth in detecting loss 

 of, 263 ; loss of, cannot certain- 

 ly be ascertained in common 

 hives, 264, 281 ; exempt from 

 dysentery, and dees not commu- 

 nicate infection of foul-brood. 

 276 ; death of, from old age, 

 277 ; more tenacious of life, 

 than other bees, 278 ; death of, 

 usually sudden, 278 ; sometimes 



rejected by a qneenless hive, 

 282; sometimes caught by birds, 

 286 ; often enters wrong hive, 

 by mistake, and is killed, 286 ; 

 theory of how loss of, is ascer- 

 tained by bees, 293 ; how to 

 learn in mov. comb hive, whe- 

 ther young one has become fer- 

 tile, 297 ; how to prove that 

 young one leaves hive for im- 

 pregnation, 299 ; recognized by 

 bees, by her peculiar smell, 316 ; 

 how to replace old with young, 

 in mov. comb hive, 319; fertili- 

 ty of, impaired by hunger, 361 ; 

 is a great eater, 361 ; taken 

 from bees, must not be kept long 

 without food, 361 ; sometimes 

 enters surplus honey boxes, 379; 

 effect of preventing from laying, 

 on yield of honey, 401 ; impreg- 

 nation of, in open air, proved 

 by means of Italian bees, 444 ; 

 how to introduce Italian, to com- 

 mon bees, 449 ; Italian, may be 

 sent anywhere, in mov. comb 

 hive, 456; how to judge of ma- 

 turity of unhatched one, 460. 



Queen Bees, why when two fight, 

 both are not killed, 233 ; combat 

 of, as witnessed in Author's ob- 

 serving hive, 236; supernume- 

 rary, how disposed of, in swarm- 

 ing season, 238; some more fer- 

 tile than others, 319 ; Italian, 

 how to propagate late in the 

 season, 477. 



Queen-Cage, use and construction 

 of, 236, 237. 



Queen-Cells, see Eoyal Cells. 



Queenless Stocks, do not when fi.rst 

 becoming so, welcome a stranger 

 queen, 236 ; when they should 

 be taken up, 283 ; destroyed by 

 moth, in Aristotle's time, 464. 



Queen-Nursery, see Nursery. 



Quimby, M., work of, on bee- 

 keeping, very valuable, 329 ; 

 extract from, on wintering bees 

 329-333 ; views of, on shape of 



