GLOSSARY. 
side of a division called the septum 
which Serves as bottom to the cells 
on both sides—the whole forming a 
sheet of comb. 
CoMB-FOUNDATION.—A sheet of wax, 
so stamped on each side as to form 
the bases of two sets of cells, consti- 
tuting an artificial septwm, which the 
bees can quickly build into a com- 
plete comb. 
ComB GUIDE.—(See STARTER.) 
CoMB _HonrEy.—Honey in the comb, 
specially raised for table use. 
DEPRIVATION. — Removing 
from hives. 
DiIaRRH@A, DYSENTERY. —For this 
disease of bees—generally called by 
the latter name, although the first 
is perhaps the more suitable—see 
Chap. XVI. 
DRIvING BEES.—Forcing bees to leave 
one box or hive and to enter another. 
(See Chap. X.) 
DRONE Eee.—An egg that will pro- 
duce a drone only; an egg unfer- 
tilised by the male germ; may be 
laid by an impregnated queen, a 
virgin queen, or fertile worker. 
DRUMMING.—Rapping on the sides of 
a hive when driving bees. 
DZIERZON (pronounced Tseertsone) 
THEORY. — The theory of Pastor 
Dzierzon, formulated into thirteen 
propositions, and which forms the 
basis of modern scientific apiculture. 
(See pages 65 to 67.) 
EMBRYO QUEENS.—Queens in their 
rudimentary or undeveloped state, 
petave arriving at maturity in their 
cells. 
EMERGING BROOD, EMERGING BEES. 
—Young bees which have under- 
gone all the changes from the egg to 
the perfect insect and then cut their 
way through the cappings of the 
cells. 
FARINACEOUS Foop.—Of a mealy or 
floury nature, such as the pollen of 
flowers. 
FECUNDATE.—To impregnate. The 
queen after her ‘‘ wedding flight” is 
properly said to be fecundated, 
though the term fertilised is more 
generally but not so correctly used. 
FERTILISE.—To render fruitful. Ap 
plied by botanists correctly to the 
effect produced by the pollen on the 
ovules of the flowers; not so cor- 
rectly applied to the fecundation of 
the queen bee, as she is, ina certain 
sense, fertile of herself. (See PAR- 
THENOGENESIS.) 
FERTILE WORKER.—A worker bee 
whose ovaries have been partly de- 
veloped, and which is able to lay 
honey 
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eggs in cases where a colony be- 
comes queenless; but not having 
been fecundated by a drone, such 
eggs can only produce drones, like 
those of an unfecundated queen. 
FpN.* oR fdn.—An abbreviation of 
the compound word “ comb-founda- 
tion” (which see). 
FLIGHT (Wedding or Marriage).—The 
excursion which a young queen 
usually makes from the hive a few 
days after she emerges from the 
cell, for the purpose of meeting the 
drone in the air and becoming fecun- 
ated. 
FLicutr (Cleansing).—The first issue 
of bees from the hive after along 
confinement, for the purpose of 
voiding their foeces. 
Foracr.—(See BEE FoRAGE.) 
FouL Broop.—A disease of bees, now 
sees bacillus alvei. (See Chap. 
FOUNDATION.—Sometimes expressed 
Sdn. (See CoMB FOUNDATION.) 
FUNGICIDE.—Any chemical substance 
which destroys the vitality of fun- 
gus sperms, which in a microscopic 
form are the causes of disease, such 
as bacillus alvei, etc. 
GLuUCcOsE.—One of the chemical forms 
of sugar, known also as grape sugar 
and fruit sugar; a cheap and in- 
ferior sort of syrup sometimes used 
to adulterate honey. 
GRANULATED HONEY. — Crystallised 
honey. Nearly all pure liquid honey 
will granulate and become opaque 
after a while, unless heated to a 
high degree and then hermetically 
sealed while hot. Adulterated honey 
rarely granulates. On the other 
hand, there are rare cases of pure 
honey remaining in a clear liquid 
state. 
GRAPE SuGAR.—(See GLUCOSE.) 
HATCcHING.—This term is only cor- 
rectly applied tothe production of the 
larva from the egg of the bee, which 
happens three days after the egg is 
laid. The changes from the larva 
to the complete insect do not pro- 
perly come under the designation of 
hatching. 
HExaGon.—A figure having six sides 
and six angles. If the sides and 
angles are all equal the figure is a 
regular hexagon. The cells of 
honeycomb are, as a rule, of this 
form. (See page 94.) 
HEXAPODA. — Six-footed. The sub- 
class of Insecta, which includes the 
order Hymenoptera. 
