INDEX. 
643 
E. 
Earwigs, 361, 579 
Egg diet, 404 
Eggs for raising queens, 292 
given to queenless stocks, 266 
removal of, 287 
subject to disease, 549 
two kinds only, 283 
Egyptian bees, 620 
hives, 82 
Ekes to prevent swarming, 112, 279 
Elasticity in hive, 34 
Elongated cells, 270 
Embedder for wired frames, 207 
Emergency queen-cell, 286 
Emotion in bees, 354 
Encasement of queen, 149, 327, 426, 
431 
signs of, 334 
Entrance defended by bees, 280 
of hive requires regulation, 274 
Equalising stores, 516 
Examining combs, 256 
Excluder zinc, 74 
Extracted honey, to obtain, 490 
honey, working for, 278 
Extracting sections, 480 
under cover, 501 
Extractor, Abbott’s single-comb, 
478 
Cowan, 476 
Hruschka’s, 468 
principles of, 470 
Raynor, 475 
zinc unsuitable for, 479 
Eyeless spiders, 319 
V. 
False clusters, 260 
E'anners, how arranged, 277 
in new swarms, curious obser- 
vation respecting, 130 
in stocks, 530 
Feeding, 376 
artificial pollen, 400 
autumn, 416 
behind dummy, 56 
dr>- sugar, 395 
egg, 404 
Feeding in the open, 390 
milk, 403 
rapid and slow, reasons for, 4 1 2 
spring, 409 
stage, 386 
Fermentation of pollen, 376 
Fertile workers, 352 
Fertilisation, artificial, 323 
in confinement, 605 
Fighting of queens, 155, 161, 312, 
321 
Fixing foundation, 190 
Flat-bottomed foundation, 187 
Flesh flies grow rapidly, 3 1 7 
Float feeder, 393 
Floating apiary, 62 1 
Flora, desirable, 358 
Flour cake, 397 
Flowers related in size to bees, 318 
Folding block for sections, 451 
sections, 450 
Food of larvae, 284 
recipe for, 379 
Foul brood (see also “ Bacillus 
alvei ”), 536 
a misnomer, 549 
attacks adult bet-s, 546 
McLain’s treatment, 565 
phenol treatment, 561 
symptoms of, 537 
Foundation, 184 
cutting board, 453 
fixing in sections, 454 
how to suspend, 217 
one-eleventh of area of surface 
of comb, 213 
on glass, 206 
partially thinned, 215 
sagging, 197 
saved from stretching by 
narrow spacing, 72 
strengthened by various fibres, 
202 
the Given, 208 
thickness of, 212 
thin, for sections, 452 
to prevent sagging of, 198 
variation in size of cells of, 212 
wired, 200 
with wooden midrib, 206 
Foundation-cutters, 453 
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