INDEX. 
407 
are an easy prey to tho moth, 246 (and 
note). 
Stocks, union of, see Union of colonies. 
Stomach of worker, wood-cut of, PI. 
XVII., Fig. 54. 
Ftovcs, air-tight, deficient in ventilation, 
92; Franklin, a good kind of, 92 (note). 
Straw, use of, tor protecting hives, 537. 
Stupeiaction of bees, by smoko, chloro- 
form, and other, 210. 
Sturtcvant, E. T., on wintering bees, 340. 
SutTocation of bees, symptoms, 90. 
Sugar, its elements 70. 
Sugar-candy, see Candy 
Sugar- water, use of to pacify bees, 26 ; 
154, 168-170 j how to apply it, 170 ; 
used in mingling stocks, 203. 
Sulphur, use of, in killing eggs and worms 
of bee moth, 243. 
Sun, heat of, important to bees in Spriug, 
101,308. 
Superstitions about bees, 79. 
Surplus honey, see Honey, surplus. 
Swallow, address of Grecian poet, to a 
bee-eating, 253. 
Swammerdam, his drawing of queen’s 
ovaries described, 35 ; great merits of, 
as an observer, 65 (note).: his drawing 
of queen’s ovaries, PI. XVIII. ; how 
he learned the internal economy of tho 
hive, and his reveronoo in studyiug 
the works of Nature, 164 (note) ; spoke 
of two species of boc-motn, 228. 
Swarms, new, often construct drone- 
comb to store honey, 51 ; number of 
boes in a good one, 54 ; first ones led 
by old queous, 111 ; no suro indica- 
tions at first, 111 • will settle without 
ringing of bolls, &c., 113; moro in- 
clined to elope, if bees are neglected, 
114 ; how to arrest a fugitive, 114 ; 
how to prevent, from deserting a new 
hive, 115; indications of intciulod de- 
sertion, 115 ; clustering of, before de- 
parture, of special benefit to man, 116- 
send out scouts, 117 ; sometimes build 
comb of fence-rails, &c., 118 ; how 
parent hivo is re-populated, after de- 
parture of, 119 • composed of young 
and old bees, 119 ; noue of the bees of 
now, return to parent hivo, 120 ; signs 
and time of second, 122 ; sometimes 
settle in several clusters, 122 ; singular 
instanco of plurality of queens (in 
Mexico), 122 ; signs and time of third, 
123 ; first, sometimes swarms agaiu, 
128 ; new, reluctant, to ontor heated 
hives, 130; often take possession of 
doserted hives stored with comb, but 
seldom of empty hives, 131 ; treos con- 
venient for clustering of, 131 ; can bo 
made to alight on a selected spot, 131 ; 
hiving of, should not bo delayed, 132 ; 
several, clustering together, 137 ; may 
bo soparatod by hiving iu largo hive, 
137 ; hissing sound of boes wliilo 
swarming, causes other stocks to 
swann, 137 ; how to prevent their 
mingling, 138 ; should be pluced where 
intended to stand, as soon as hived, 
138 ; how to proceed when hivo is not 
ready to receive, 139 ; feeble after- 
swarms, of little value, 140, 141 ; strong, 
tempted to evil courses, 141 ; many, 
annually lost, 143 ; danger of losing, in 
swarming season, 144; decrease of 
in bees, after swarming, 151 (and 
note) ; new, have greater energy than 
old. 153 ; forced, 154; will enter hives 
without tho queen, 159 (note) ; when 
forced, how to induco to adhere to 
new locations, 163 (and note) ; to 
avoid risk of losing, in swarming-time, 
173 : too rapid multiplication of, un- 
profitable, 176; second, usually val- 
ueless, unless early, and season good ; 
177 ; weak, may be strengthened by 
use of mov. comb hive, 178 ; one new, 
made from two old ones, 181 (note 3) ; 
artificial^ rapid increase of with mov. 
comb hive, 183 ; dangers attending, 
iu large apiaries where the hives aro 
uniform iu appearance, and near to- 
gether, 216 ; how to avoid tho danger, 
217 ; Washington Irving’s account of. 
in the West, 236 (note) ; new, neoa 
more air than old, 281 ; precautions in 
moving, 281 ; a late one, 366. 
Swarming, signs of, 111 ; indisposes bees 
to return to parent hive, 120 ; unsea- 
sonable, often caused by famine, 116 ; 
causes bees to mark the place of their 
new abodo, 120 ; incident in. iu Mex- 
ico, 123 ; after, care ueeded to pro- 
servo young brood iu parent hive, 
124; iu tropical climates, at all sea- 
sons, 128 ; season of, 128 ; inconve- 
niences of, 139-147 ; artificial, modo 
of for common hives, 154 ; best pre- 
vented by use of authors hive, 153: 
for tho season, can be accomplished 
in few days with author’s hive, 173 ; 
time of natural, easily determined iu 
author’s hive, 173 (note) ; prevented by 
clipping wings of queen, 173, 223 ; pre- 
vented by contracting the eutranco 
of hive, 174 ; last plan not thoroughly 
tested, 174 (note 3) ; frequent, unpro- 
Utabio, 176 ; best modo of artificial, 
181; bow to obtain extra queens in na- 
tural, 190 (note); interesting anecdote 
of, 308. 
Swarming, artificial, soo Artificial 
Swarming. 
Swarmiug, natural, see Natural Swarm- 
ing. 
Swarming season, commencement and 
duration of, 111, 128, 
Sweaty horses, detested aud often killed 
by bees, 313 
SydsorlTs calculation of profits of bee 
culture, 146 (note). 
