INDEX. 
401 
common boo, 320 ; Dzlcrzon’s experi- 
ments with. 320 : frequent disturbances 
abate nothing Irom tho iudustry of, 
321 (noto) ; general diffusion ol', de- 
sirable, 3*2 1 ; superior to common bee, 
322, 324,325 ; peaceable disposition of 
322 ; may readily be introduced into 
hives of common bees, 322 ; furnishes 
new means of studying tho habits of 
bees, 322 : the purity of, can be pre- 
served, 322 ; character of, as tested by 
Berlepsch, 324 ; number of queens 
obtained in oue season, from one 
queen, 324 ; remarkable fact in rela- 
tion to hybrids, 324 (note) ; descrip- 
tion of, by Busch, 324 ; Kadlkolfer’s 
account of, 325 ; how to introduce an 
Italian queen to a stock of common 
bees, 325 : advantages of author’s uon- 
swarmer in preserving the Italian bee 
pure, 326 ; how to produce abundance 
of drones of, 327 ; precaution suggest- 
ed when non-swarmer cannot be used, 
327 ; queous of, safely moved in mov. 
comb hive, 327 ; introduction of, into 
this couutry, important, 328 ; arrange- 
ments to that end, 328 (note). 
Itinerating colonies, 306 (note 2). 
Ignorance, the occasion of tho invention 
of costly and useless hives, 209 (and 
note). 
Increase of colonies, rapid, impractica- 
ble, by natural swarmiug, 147 ; or by 
dividing hives, 149 ; rapid, cautions 
against, 175-178 ; rapid, incompatible 
with large yield of surplus honey, 176 ; 
a tenfold, possible, in mov. comb hive, 
178 ; sure, not rapid, to be aimed at, 
179 ; formiug ouo now from two old 
colonies best, and how effectod, 180 ; 
rapid, requires liberal feeding, 184. 
Inexperienced persons should not begin 
boe-kcepitig on a largo scale, 282. 
Indian name for honey-bee, 236. 
Industry taught by tho bee, 69. 
Intemperate men compared to infatuated 
bees, 278. 
Intercommunication of bees in hives, im- 
portant, 103, 336, 337 (and note), 339 
(and note). 
Irving, Washington, his account of the 
abundanco of bees at the We3t, 230 
(noto). 
J. 
Jansha, on Impregnation of quoen, 36. 
Japanese, voueratlon for birds, 253 
(note). 
Jarring, disliked by bees, 96, 170, 309. 
Jelly, royal, the food of immature 
queen, 63 • a accretion of tho bees, 64 ; 
analysis of, 6 1 , offect of, in developing 
larvio, 04. 191 : poilon necessary for 
its production, 197. 
Johnson, M. T., tho first American ob- 
server of the fact that queenless stock# 
are soon destroyed by the moth, 244 
(note). 
E. 
Kaden, Mr., on over-stocking, 301. 
Killing bees for honey, an invention of 
the dark ages, 239 (note); more hu 
mane than to starve them, 238 ; not 
necessary, 239. 
Kindness of bees at home, a lesson foi 
man, 312. 
King-bird, eats bees, 252. 
Kirby and Spence on auts and aphides, 
285. 
Kirtlaud,Dr. J. P.,his letter on tho in- 
troduction of tho bee moth, 240; on 
benefits of transferring stocks into 
mov. comb hive, 284. 
Knight on honey-dews, 286. 
Kleiue, Rev. Mr., on making bees rear 
queens in selected cells, 191 ; his 
method of preventing robberies among 
bees, 265 (note); on feeding bees, 273; 
on over-stocking, 301 ; on accustoming 
tho humau system to tho poison of 
bees, 316 (uoto). 
L. 
Larvte of honey-bee, development of, 44 
(PI. XIII., Figs. 40, 41, 42): royal, 64 ; 
perish without vontilation, 89 ; of beo- 
motli, see bee -moth, larvae of ; of 
honey bee, disease of, 269. 
Lcidy, Dr. Joseph, his dissection of fertile 
and drono-layiug queons, 34 , 39, 213 
(note); of a queen just impregnated, 
126 (noto). 
Light, bees will work when exposed to, 
16. 205, 332 ; its sudden admission, 
cllect of. on bees, 168, 169 ; of day, 
noeded lor operations about tho hivo, 
167. 
Ligurian, or Italian, bco, 318 (noto). 
Linden, or bass-wood tree, yields much 
honey, 293 (and note). 
Liriodeudron, yields much honey, 292. 
Locust, valuablo for bees, 293. 
Lombard, his interesting anecdote of 
swarming, 308. 
Longfellow, H. W., his Iudian warrior’s 
description of the boo, 236. 
Loss of queen, 213-227 ; frequent, though 
tho queen is usually the last to perish 
in any casualty, 213 ; when by old age, 
bees proparo for her successor, 213 ; 
occurs oftenest when queen leaves 
hivo for impregnation, 213, 214 ; how 
occasioned, by queens mistaking their 
hives, 214, 215 ; bees, like hens in this 
respect, 215 ; Judge Fishbaek’s pre- 
ventive of, 216 ; author’s provontivo, 
217 j effect of, on stocks, 217 ; some- 
