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INDEX. 



360 ; holes in spare honey-board 

 should be left open in, 435, 471- 

 478, 



Wintering Bees, dry and dark cel- 

 lar, suitable for, 116, 328, 329, 

 476; best done, when bees are 

 kept quiet, 116; difficult when 

 stocks are over-populous, or 

 quite small, 315; remarks on, 

 321-334 ; on their Summer stand, 

 322 ; how to get proper commu- 

 nications in combs for, 324, 465, 

 482 ; Dzierzon's special deposi- 

 tory for, 329; Mr. Quimby on, 

 329-333 ; requires caution in re- 

 moving them out of Winter quar- 

 ters, 332, 466, 476; quantity of 

 honey needed for, 361; how to 

 guard against dampness in mov. 

 comb hive, 435, 471-478. 



Wives, a friendly word to, 260. 



"Wood-cuts, explanation of, 481- 

 492. 



Worker-comb, not built unle.ssbees 

 have a hatched queen, 174 ; 

 built by bees, having mature 

 but unfertile queen, 294 ; wood- 

 cut of, Fl. XV, Fig. 48. 



Woman, health and beauty of, im- 

 paired by neglect of ventilation, 

 132. 



Worker-Bees,sometimes fertile,39 ; 



eggs of fertile, produce drones 

 only, 39 ; Ruber's theory of 

 origin of fertile, 39 ; wood-cuts 

 of, (natural and magnified,) PI. 

 XII, Figs. 35 and 36 ; wood-cut 

 of stomach and honey-bag of, 

 (magnified,) PI. XVII, Fig. 54 ; 

 number of, in a swarm, 59 ; de- 

 scription of, 59 ; are all unde- 

 veloped females, 59 ; fertile, how 

 developed, 60, prefer "to lay in 

 drone cells, 60 ; use of proboscis 

 of, 61 ; wood-cut of proboscis of, 

 (magnified) PI. XVI, Fig. 51 ; 

 wood-cut of abdomen of, PI. 

 XVI, Fig. 52 ; receptacles for 

 pollen of, 61 ; duties of, 63 ; wax 

 making and nursing, Huber's 

 account of, 218. 



Worms, see Bee-moth, Larvae of. 



Wormwood, use of, for driving 

 away robbing bees, 343. 



Y. 



Youth, a friendly word to, 283. 



Z. 



Zollickoffer, H. M.; his account of 

 bees, building combs on a tree, 

 146. 



