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GLOSSART. 



■STOOK.--.A-Compl.ete collect ion of bees, 

 consisting of a queen and workers 

 (with, sometimes drones), settled in 

 a, hive, and capable of propagating 

 their race. (See Colony.) 



Super— An additional box or hive 

 set over another to increase the 

 space for the bees to work and store 

 surplus honey in. 



Supering.— Putting on supers. 



Swarm. — A portion of the bees of an 

 old stock which leave the hive with 

 either the old queen or a young one 

 just emerged .from the cell, to form 

 a new colony. The latter is called 

 an after-swarm. 



Swarm Box. — A box for taking 

 swarms in. 



Tiebing-up. — Placing additional 

 stories, one over the other, on a 

 hive, to induce increased production 

 of either frame or section honey. 



Tin Rabbets. — (See Metal Sup- 

 ports.) 



Transferring.— Changing the combs 

 and stock of bees from one box or 

 hive to another. Generally applied 

 to cases of changing comb and bees 

 from a straw or box hive to a 

 movable comb hive. 



Uncapping. — Removing the wax 

 coverings from cells of capped or 

 sealed honey preparatory to extract- 

 ing. 



Uniting. — Making one colony out of 

 two or more stocks or swarms. 



Unripe Honey.— Honey which has 

 not been long enough stored by the 

 bees to get rid of all superfluous 

 moisture and become fit to be capped 

 or sealed. 



Variety.— As applied to bees, a sub- 

 division of the single species having 

 some peculiarity of colour or quali- 

 ties. (See Race and Species.) 



Vesicle.— A little bladder or sac. 



Virgin Comb.— Comb which has only 

 been used once for storing honey 

 and never for brood. 



Virgin Honey. — Honey stored in 

 virgin comb only. 



Note.— The two latter terms are 

 now obsolete, but were formerly 

 common among box-hive bee- 

 keepers. 



Wax.— This word, when used without 

 any addition or qualification, is 

 taken to mean bee's wax— the sub- 

 stance secreted by bees, and of 

 which they build their comb. (See 

 pages 87 to 89.) 



Wax Pockets.— The overlapping of 

 the abdominal rings of the worker 

 bee, in which the scales of wax are 

 secreted. (See fig. 27, page 88.) 



Wintering.— Passing colonies of bees 

 safely through the winter months. 

 (See Chap. XIV.) 



Wired Foundation.— Comb founda- 

 tion strengthened by the introduc- 

 tion of wires in the wax sheet. 



Worker Egg.— An egg laid by an 

 impregnated queen which has been 

 fertilised by receiving the male 

 sperm as it passed -the spermatheca 

 on its passage from the ovary ; will 

 develop into a queen or worker. 



Worker, Fertile— Worker, Lay- 

 ing.— (See Fertile Worker.) 



