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INDEX, 
Piping of qacons, an Indication of after- 
swarming, 121. 
Plantain, a remedy for boo-stings, 315. 
Plum-tree, a source of honey, 292. 
Poison of bees, smell of, strong and irri- 
tating to bees, 314 ; effect of, on the 
eye, 314 (note) ; remedies for, 314- 
317 ; effect of, when taken into the 
mouth, 315 ; cold water the best rem- 
edy for, 315; a homoeopathic remedy, 
315 (note) ; tho human system cun be 
inured to, 316 (note). 
Poisonous honey, and how to remove its 
injurious qualities, 287. 
Pollen, or bee-bread, 80-87 ; found in 
stomachs of wax-makers, 80 ; may aid 
in secretion of wax, 80; whence ob- 
tained, 80 ; food of immature bees, as 
shown by Huber’s experiments, 80 ; 
author’s, to tho same effect, 81 ; Gun- 
delach’s opinion of, 81 ; useful in se- 
cretion of wax, 82 ; bees prefer fresh 
to old, 82 ; in mov. comb hives, excess 
of, in old stocks, can bo given to others, 
82 ; how gathered and stored by bees, 
83 ; bees gathering, aid in impregnating 
plants. 83 ; bees collect, only from one 
kind or flower at a time, 83 ; wheat and 
rye meal a substitute for, 84 ; neces- 
sary for tho production of wax and jelly , 
197 ; tho gathering of, by bees, indi- 
cates a fertile queen in tho hive, 219 
(and note). 
Pollen-basket, on leg of bee, 56. 
Poppy, white, a remedy for boo-stings, 
815 . 
Posel, discovory of, on use of sperma- 
theca, 36 (note). 
Proboscis of a worker, 56 ; wood-cuts of, 
Plates XIII., XVI., Figs. 63, 51. 
Profits of bee-keeping. Dzlerzon’s expe- 
rience in. 21 ; Bydserff’s calculation of, 
140 (note) ; dependent on strong stocks, 
176 ; difficulty of estimating, 306 
(note) ; safe estimate of, 306. 
Propolis, 76-SO ; whence obtained, 76; 
curious sources of, in Mexico, 77 ; its 
uses, 77 ; bee-moth lays her eggs in, 
78 ; curious anecdotes, illustrating its 
uses, 78. 
Prussia, bcc-kocping encouraged by gov- 
ernment of, 320 (note). 
Pupa, or hoc-nymph, 45 ; heat requirod 
for its development, 46. 
Punk, smoko of, subdues hoes, 27, 164. 
Q- 
Quccn-beo, wood-cut of (natural and 
magnified size), PI. XII., Figs. 31. 32 ; 
wood-cut of ovaries and apormatnoca 
of, 35, PI. XVIII.; description of, 30 ; 
the mother of tho whole colony, 30; 
affectionate treatment of, by the other 
bees, 31 : effect of her loss on tho 
colony, 31 ; her fertility, 32; how hor 
eggs aro fecundated, 34-41; Huber 
discovers impregnation or, to tako 
place out of hive, 34 ; dissection of, by 
Hr. Lcidy, 34, 126 (note), 213 (note); 
effect of retarded impregnation on, 
36 ; she determines tho sex of the egg, 
38 ; Dr. Lohly ’s dissection of a drone- 
laying, 38, 126 (note), 213 (note) ; at- 
tempt of bees to rear, from a drone- 
egg, 39 ; account of a drone laying, 
afterwards laying worker eggs, 4u ; 
a drone laying, with shrivelled wings, 
40; Italian, impregnated by common 
drones, produce Italian drones, whilo 
the females aro a cross, 41, 324 (note 
2) ; becomes incapable of impregna- 
tion, 42 ; process of laying, 43 ; devel- 
opment of, in pupa state, 46; enmity 
of, to each other, 46, 120, 205-207 ; can 
regulate development of eggs in her 
ovaries, 47; disposition by ? of super- 
numerary eggs, 48; fertility of, de- 
creases with ago, 49, 223 ; longevity 
of, 49, 58; when superannuated, lays 
only drone-eggs, 49; why impreg- 
nated in tho air, 53; office of. no sino- 
curo, 68: Italian, use of, to snow how 
long workers live, 69 ; manner of rear- 
ing, 62 ; larvm of, effects of royal jelly 
on, 63; process of rearing in special 
emergency, 66 ; development of, an 
argument’ against infidelity, 68; old, 
leads first swarm, 111 ; often lost in 
swarming, 112 ; loss of, in swarming, 
causes bees to return to paront stock, 
113 ; how to prevent, from deserting 
new hive, 115 ; influence of, in causing 
bees to cluster, 117 ; prevented by 
bees from killing inmates of royal 
cells, 121 ; piping of, 121 ; several 
sometimes accompany after-swarms, 
122 ; emerges from hor coll maturo, 
122 ; young more active on wing than 
old, 123 ; young often reluctant to 
loavo hive, 123 ; young, does not 
leave for impregnation till established 
os sole head, 51, 125 ; her precautions 
to regain her hive, 125 ; never molest- 
od by drones in hive, 127 (note) ; 
begins laying two days after impreg- 
nation, 128 ; lays mostly worker-eggs 
tho first year, 128 ; never stings, ex- 
copt in combat with other queens, 
136,204 ; alacrity of, in entering hivo 
for now swarm, 136 : young, often lost 
after swarming, 14l ; hor loss easily 
remedied by mov. comb hive, 141 ; 
unfertile, difficult to remove in com- 
mon hives, 141 ; whon immature, bees 
do not build worker-comb, 149 ; sel- 
dom enters side-apartments, 152 ; 
signs indicating her presence or ab- 
sence in forced swarms, 158 ; supply 
of sealed, for forced swarming, how to 
secure, 160 ; how to cut sealed ones 
from comb, 160 ; for tile, doprivod of 
