I N DE age 457 
4 Weather, good favourable to bees, 6, 7 5 bad, very hurtful to 
, them, vii, sree 9) 29, 223 5 inconftancy of it, the only pre- 
ventive of bees from thriving, 29; how to guard againft 
___ its effeéts, vii. 223 5 fee Cold, Heat, Rain, Wind, &c 
_ Weight of hives, that require fupplies of food, 125, 126; of 
honey fufficient for that purpofe, 126; of fwarms, 168; 
of hives increafed by changing their fituations, 185 ; by 
: the junction of fwarms, 1983 and by being long kept, 1d 
4 ee George, Efq; his account of a repaft of honey, 2255 
220. 
_ White clover, white honey extrafted from, 21- 
> White matter thrown into the royal cells, by the bees, difqui- 
__ fition concerning it, 65, 66. 
_ White Stephen and W. writers on bees, 2; the former quoted, 
103; and refuted, 2. 
White thorn, honey dew obferved on the leaves of, 19. 
Wildman, Mr, a writer on bees, 2; quoted 19, 105 ; his reas 
_ foning upon the cold endured by bees in Ruffia, 105 ; con. 
troverted, 25. 106, 107, fays that ants do not hurt bees, 
: 222. 
_ Wind hurtful to bees, 7, 29, 169. . 
Winter, how to prepare {tock hives for, 95, 96; 97, 98; and 
to manage them in, 99, 100; IOI, 102; a mild one fup- 
pofed to be dangerous to bees, 103 5 this opinion refuted, 24; 
| 104: experiments, 1073; fevere winters fometimes kill 
' whole hives, 197- ae 
Wonders, fee’ ingly incredible, which the author can perform 
with bees, 140, 141- ‘ 
Wood-lice hurtful to bees; 223 3 how to extirpate them, 22, 
Wood, advantages of hives made of, 144 
or common bees; Schirach’s opinion of, 54 ; any one 
in an early ftage, of becoming a Queen, 2. ; defcrip- 
differ in fome particulars from both 
3 Pikiccen and drones, 80 ; compofe the whole pomeiunty = 
“three fourths of the year; 815 perform the whole labour uF 
the hive, 22.3 and kill the drones, 20. ; unlefs hurt or af- 
Kk fronted, 
| 
Working; 
_capable; 
tion of them, 78, 79) 805 
