646 
INDEX. 
Lamp nurserv, 308 
Metheglin, 585 
Langstroth blocks, 96 
Methyl salicylate, 25 
Langstroth’s error respecting 
salicylate, experiment with, 26 
gorging, 12 
frame, 46 
Mice, 579 
Micrococcus in queen, 571 
top bar, 173 
Micro-organisms, 540 
Larvae, how fed, 284 
microscropic examination of, 
maturing without a cell, 308 
543 ‘ . 
transferred to queen-cells, 293 
Microscope and unicomb hive, 117 
weaned form bad queens, 289 
Microscopic mounting of cocoon, 
Laws of comb-structure, 41 
153 
Lee’s dovetail-jointed frames, 192 
test for honey, 586 
dovetail sections, 456 
Midrib of comb, 40, 1 78 
Legs of hives, to preserve, 119 
Midribs made from shot, 183 
Liberated queens flying, 332 
Milk diet, 403 
Ligurian bee, 610 
Miquel and aerial bacteria, 574 
Ligurianising, 2:52, 619 
Molecular strain in stamping foun- 
Location marked by bees, 134 
dation, 201 
to make bees keep a new, 273, 
IMonads rapidly multiply, 317 
428 
Moth, death’s head, 576 
Loose boxes for hives, 120 
''■ax, 575 
hinge for hive cover, 63 
]Mouth of hive not left defenceless 
tray, Howard’s, 112 
by bees, 280 
Lug, iron, 68 
of hive requires regulation, 274 
Lycoperdon, 339 
ISIoving bees, 273, 426 
stocks, 426 
M. 
Madame La Voyageuse, 350 
stocks depends on surround- 
ings, 427 
Maiden swarming, 276 
X. 
Makeshift hives, 52 
Malpighian tubes, their action, 405 
Xadiring, 491 
Material for hives, 122 
Natural and artificial processes 
Mating, time of, 226 
contrasted, 115 
IMcLain on hybernation, 520 
History ^Museum, demonstra- 
McLain’s experiment on artificial 
tions in, 1 70 
fertilisation, 323 
increase, 123 
experiment on fertilisation in 
selection not always most 
confinement, 606 
desirable, 229 
treatment of Bacillus alvei, 565 
swarming, disadvantages of, 225 
Mead, 585 
Negro as wet nurse, 354 
Neighbour’s invertible crate, 467 
Meadows’ extractor web of, 471 
^Melipona, 628 
Sandringham hive, 80 
Metal corners, 77 
Night manipulation, 234, 347, 365, 
ends, 64, 108 
424 
ends, adjustable, 199 
Non-swarming system, 275, 504 
ends, Carr’s, 199 
Normal queen-cell, 286 
ends made too long, 108 
Nuclei too small swarm out, 306 
ends, their disadvantages, 66 | 
to receive queen-cells, 294 
feeding-stages unadvisable, 385 
to unite, 305, 437 
runners for frames, 66 | 
Nucleus hive, 55 
