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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 goesaway tosome 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 
in hives. 
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 toan apiary ortoapiculture 
in general. 
APIDH.—The family of insects to 
which bees belong. 
APis.—Latin for bee; the name of the 
genus of insects of the family apide, 
to which all species of bees belong. 
APIS MELLIFICA.—The species of the 
genus apis, to which all varieties of 
the honey-bee belong. 
ARRENOTOKIA.—The name applied by 
Leuchart 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 scientificname 
of the disease known as ‘‘foul 
brood,” and also the name of the 
germ which is the cause of the dis- 
ease. 
BACILLUSGAYTONI.—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 96.) 
BEE CULTURE.—(See APICULTURE.) 
BEE FORAGE.—Trees, flowers or plants 
of every description which furnish 
the materials usually collected and 
stored by bees. (See Chaps. IV. and 
XVIII.) 
BEE PASTURAGE.—Used in the same 
sense as bee forage, but not s0 cor- 
rectly, as pasture infers, strictly 
speaking, an act of grazing. 
BuLacks, BLACK BEES.—Terms gene- 
rally, though incorrectly, applied to 
the common brown or German bee. 
Broop.—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 SEALED. 
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 ahive. (See STocK.) 
Coms.—A double set of waxen cells 
to contain honey, bee bread or brood, 
built by the bees, one set on each 
