INDEX. 
405 
wings to prevent swarming, 173 ; may 
bo confined to provent swarming, 
174 ; unfertile, should not bo confined, 
170 ; fertile, easily supplied to desti- 
tute mother stocks, 182 ; young, in 
after-swarms, lay few drone-eggs, 184 
(note) ; to raise, for artificial-swarm- 
ing, 188 ; when to be given to newly- 
forced swarms, 189 ; to induce bees to 
raise, on what part of the comb you 
please, 191 ; her value, 192 (note) ; 
can she be developed from any 
worker-larva)? 192 f note 2) ; made to 
supply several stocks with eggs, 193 ; 
will lay eggs while under inspection, 
190 (note); caution needed in giving, 
to strange stocks, 200 ; stranger, how 
to induce stocks to receive, 201 ; pro- 
tected by queen-cage, 201 ; care to bo 
used in catching, 202 ; never stings, 
but sometimes bites, 202, 204 ; may 
be lost if allowed to fly, 202 ; her great 
appetite, 202 ; her life mdispensablo to 
the safety of the colony, 204 ; loss of, 
seo “Loss of Queen;” young, dangers 
besetting, 213 ; should bo given to 
quoonlcss stocks in Spring, 221 : when 
unimpregnated, colouy should bo 
watched, 222; when unimpregnated, 
hides, 222 ; wiugs of, may be clipped 
for artificial swarming, 222 ; how to 
mark the ago of, 223; fertility of, dimin- 
ished by hunger aud cold, 223 (noto 
1); should bo removed in their third 
year, aud now one given, 223 ; regular 
and systematic, best, 223 (note 2) ; 
odor of, 226; roraoval of, a remedy 
for foul-brood, 258 ; surplus, reared by 
Bzierzon, in suspectod hives, 260: de- 
serted by her subjects when they have 
been conquered by stronger stocks. 
263 (and noto) ; should bo removed 
beforo smothering the bees, when 
stocks are broken up for their liouey , 
306 (noto); Italian, how to propagate, 
326; after being chilled, lay only drone- 
eggs, 327. 
Queen Bees, why. when two fight, both 
are not killed, 206 ; combat of, ns wit- 
nessed in ono of author's observing 
hives, 205 
Queen-cage, uso and construction of, 201, 
326. 
Queen colls, see Royal cells. 
Quceuless stocks, signs of, 219, 245 ; to 
bo supplied with queens, 221 ; in Oc- 
tober, should bo united with otlior 
stocks, 223 ; a sure prey to the moth, 
if not protected in timo, 244 (aud notoj. 
Quinby, M., author of a very valuable 
work on bee keeping, 249 (noto) ; on 
the ravages of the larva) of boo-moth, 
249 (note) ; on shape of mov. comb 
hives, 330 (note 3); on wintering bees, 
348 ; on equalizing colonies whon re- 
moved from Winter repository, 361 
(nato 2); on making bees work in a 
double tier of surplus honey-boxes, 
365 (note). 
R. 
Radlkofor, Doctor, on over-stocking, 300 ; 
on the Italian bee, 325. 
Rapping on hives, its effect on bees, 27, 
155, 204. , , t 
Raspberry, ono of the best bee-plants ? 
and very abundant In hill towns of 
New England, 296. 
Reaumur, his account of a snail covered 
with propolis, by bees, 78 ; his error 
as to the treatment of strange queens 
by bees, 201 ; thought there were two 
species of bee-moth, 228. 
Reid, I)r., on the shape or honey -cells, 75. 
Religion, revealed, appeal to those who 
reject, 62. 
Remedies for bee stings, 314-317. 
Riem, the first to notice fertile workers, 
65. 
Ringing bolls, in swarmiug time, useless, 
113. 
Requisites of a complete hive, 95-108. 
Robbers, highway, bees sometimes act 
the part of, 262. 
Robbing, by bees, frequont, when forago 
is scarce, and caution against, 199,261, 
263 ; how prevented, 261-266; commit- 
ted chiefly on feeble or queenless colo- 
nies, 261 ; signs indicating a bee en- 
gaged in, 261, 265 ; begets a disrelish 
for honest pursuits, 262, 264 (and 
note) ; movable ontrauco blocks pro- 
tect bees against, 264 ; iufatuation pro- 
duced by, on bees, 264; caution needed 
in checking, when a hive is vigorously 
attacked, 265 ; how to stop bees on- 
gaged in, 265 ; secret, its remedy, 266. 
Royal cells, described, 62 ; wood-cuts of 
plates XIII., XIV., and XV.; attention 
paid to, by workers, 62; why they 
open downwards, 63 ; uumber of, in a 
hive, 63 ; how supplied with eggs, 63 ; 
description of, 66 ; when built, 111 ; 
queen prevented from destroying, 121 ; 
remains of, iudicatc number of queons 
hatched, 121 ; may bo removed in 
mov. comb hives, to prevent after 
swarming, 124 ; how to decide whether 
inmate or has boon hatched or killed, 
121 ; how to cut out of combs, 166 ; 
sign that the queens in, are nearly 
maturo, 167 ; how to make bees rear, 
in convenient places on tho comb, 191; 
to bo given to colonies sccoud day 
after removal of queen, 223. 
Royal jelly, soo Jelly, royal. 
Rye -meal, sec meal. 
S. 
Sagacity of bocs, 47 , 48. 
