GLOSSARY 



OF SOME OF THE TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC WORDS 



MOST COMMONLY USED IN WORKS UPON 



APICULTURE. 



Abnormal.— Not according to a gene- 

 ral rule. 



Absconding Swarm.— A swarm of 

 bees which goes away to some distant 

 place, either before or after first 

 settling in a cluster, or even after 

 being hived. 



Anther.— In botany, the top of the 

 stamen of a flower, containing the 

 pollen or fecundating dust of the 

 plant. 



Apiary.— A place where bees are kept 

 iniiives. 



Apiarist, Apiator.— A person who 

 keeps an apiary ; a bee-keeper. The 

 second word not much used. 



Apiculture. — Bee-culture ; the art 

 of cultivating bees for practical pur- 

 poses. 



Apiarian, Apistical (adjectives).— 

 Relating to an apiary or to apiculture 

 in general. 



Apid.s:.— The family of insects to 

 which bees belong. 



Apis. — Latin for bee ; the name of the 

 genus of insects of thefamily apidce, 

 to which all species of bees belong. 



Apis Mellifioa.— The species of me 

 germs apis, to which all varieties of 

 the honey-bee belong. 



Arrenotokia.— The name applied by 

 Leuehart to denote a certain defec- 

 tive condition of queens. 



Artificial Fecundation, Artifi- 

 cial Fertilisation. — Impregna- 

 tion of queens under the control of 

 the apiarist, said to have been ac- 

 complished, but not generally ad- 

 mitted to be practicable. The former 

 term is most correct. 



Bacillus ALVEi.^-The scientific name 

 of the disease known as "foul 

 brood," and also the name of the 

 germ which is the cause of the dis- 

 ease. 



Bacillus Gaytoni.— A germ disease, 

 causing the bees it attacks to become 

 hairless. .These hairless bees were 

 formerly thought to be old robbers. 

 (See page 266.) 



Balling a QuEEN.^Bees surround- 

 ing a queen in a small compact ball 

 or cluster, usually done for the pur- 

 pose of injuring or killing her. 



Bee-bread.— Pollen of flowers pre- 

 pared by the bees- as food for their 

 larvee. In cold climates wheat, rye, 

 and pea flour are often provided 

 as a substitute for pollen in early 

 spring. (See page 9ft ) 



Bee Culture.— (See Apiculture.) 



Bee Forage.— Trees, flowers orplants 

 of every description which furnish 

 the materials usually collected and 

 stored by bees. (See Chaps. IV. and 



xvni.) 



Bee Pasturage.— Used in the same 

 sense as bee forage, but not so cor- 

 rectly, as pasture infers, strictly 

 speaking, an act of grazing. 



Blacks, Black Bees.— Terms gene- 

 rally, though incorrectly, applied to 

 the common brown or German bee. 



Brood.— Young bees, in all stages of 

 the change they undergo from the 

 egg until they emerge from the cell. 



Brood Chamber, Brood Nest. — 



• The whole or part of the lower hive 

 occupied by the queen for breeding 

 purposes. 



Capped Brood, Capped Honey.- 

 Brood-or honey when covered up in 

 the cells of the comb with a cap 

 made by the bees of wax, or a mix- 

 ture of wax and propolis; also 

 termed'SBALED. 



Cappings.— The caps which are re- 

 moved from the cells when the 

 honey is to be extracted. 



Cocoon.— The silky web which the 

 larva of the bee (or other insect) spins 

 round itself previous to its change 

 to the pupa state. 



Colony. — An established stock or col- 

 lection of bees, consisting of a queen 

 and workers.sometimes with drones, 

 settled in a hive. (See Stock.) 



Comb.— A double set of waxen cells 

 to contain honey, bee bread or brood, 

 built by the bees, one set on each 



