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StTock.—A complete collection 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. 
SwarmM.—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 
anew colony. The latter is called 
an after-swarm. 
Swarm Box.— A box for taking 
swarms in. 
TIERING-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 
eoverings from cells of capped or 
sealed honey preparatory to extract- 
ing. 
UniTiInG. — 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. 
GLOSSARY. 
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 ComMB.—Comb which has only 
been used once for storing honey 
and never for brood. 
VIRGIN HonrY.— Honey stored in 
virgin comb only. 
Note.—The two latter terms are 
now obsolete, but were formerly 
common among box-hive  bec- 
keepers. 
W ax.—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 Hoa.—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.) 
