INDEX. 
647 
Nucleus swarming, 270 
Nursery, 306 
lamp, 308 
objection to, 308 
providing with cells, 3 1 1 
Nurses numerous for queen-raising, 
290 
Nymphs, 15 1, 153 
O. 
Observatory hive, Abbott’s, 1 1 7 
hive, Huber’s, 42, 45 
hive, Neighbour’s, J15 
Oil of wintergreen, 27 
One-piece sections, 450 
Operating-house, 361 
windows of, 362 
Operations, register of, 439 
P. 
Packing bees, 136, 428 
for long journeys, 408 
Palinurus, stridulating organ of, 157 
Pasturage for bees, 358 
Pea-flour, 397 
Peet cage, 335 
Pelham foundation, 188 
Pettigrew on ekeing, 279 
Phenol treatment of Bacillus alvei, 
561 
Pin-trap, 446 
Piping, 156 
when heard, 159 
Plaster moulds tor foundation, 182 
Polarisation in honey analyses, 582 
Pollen, amount gathered, 598 
artificial, 399 
can be gathered without fly- 
ing, 59 J- 
fermentation of, 376 
grains illustrated, 599 
grains, size of, 508 
may be given within the hive, 
401 
nitrogenous, 397 
stored in layers, 40 
substitutes for, 398 
theory, 525 
Pollen, to judge sources of honey 
by, 598 . 
when dried, removed by bees, 
399 
Popholes, 205 
Prevention of swarming, 276 
Princesses destroyed, 155 
fed in cell, 155 
Propolis, 596, 599 
how collected and used, 602 
little gathered by Carnioldiis, 
618 
may spread disease, 602 
sources of, 601 
to cleanse, from hands, 600 
used for protection, 600 
useless to domesticated bees, 
603 
Protection for wintering, 526 
Pseudo queens, 352 
Puff-ball, 339 
Purchasing bees, 366 
Q- 
Queen and drone, necessity of selec- 
tion, 228 
balling or encasement of, 149 
327, 426, 431 
destroys her unhatched sisters, 
^55 
diseased, micrococcus in, 571 
fights, 161, 166 
finding in casts, 163 
finding in driven swarm, 240 
finding in frame hives, 256 
how she escapes from the cell, 
154 
how to cage, 332 
how to handle, 257 
introduced at once to hopeless 
bees, 564 
introduced at once to im- 
prisoned bees, 149, 263 
lost by swarm, 139 
mating, 168, 226 
not to change her stand in 
artificial swarms, 268, 269 
nursery, 306 
nymph casts bowel, 154 
period of development of, 320 
