INDEX. 
409 
Weather, unpleasant, dolays of prevents 
swarming, 112. 
West India honey, ns bee-food, 256 
(note), 270. 
Wetberell. Dr. C. M., his analysis of 
royal jelly, 64. 
Wheaton, Lovi, on upward ventilation, 
276 (note 1); on wintering bees, 346 
(note 1). 
White clover, see Clover, white. 
Weigel, Rev. Mr., first recommended 
candy, as bee-food, 272. 
Wheeler, George, on ancient bar-hives, 
210 (note). 
Willow, varieties of, abound in honey 
and pollen, 292. 
Wildtnan, Thomas, feats of, in handling 
boos, 308 ; states the fact that fear 
disposes colonies to unite, 203 (note); 
his approach to modern modes of 
taming bees, 204 (note); on the queen’s 
odor, 226. 
Winds, bees should bo protected against, 
103, 186, 279. 
Wings of queens, may be made to mark 
their age, 223. 
Winter, wasps and hornets, but not 
bees, torpid in, 109, 335 ; quantity of 
honey needed by a stock in, 274 ; 
bees eat less in, when kept quiet, 335, 
355, 358 ; bees should bo protected 
from winds of, 337 : bees in, if out of 
doors, should be allowed to fly, 337 ; 
how to ventilate hives in, 338 ; snow 
in, when injurious to bees, 338 (note 
1) ; bees need water in, 342-346; when 
honey is candied in, bees need water, 
342-344 ; disturbing bees in, injurious, 
347, 355 ; fewer bees die in. when 
hives are in clamps, than when in 
other special depositories, 358 ; tem- 
porary removal of colonies in, to a 
warm room, 341, 362. 
Wintering bees, 3:55-361 ; objections to, iu 
Iho open air, 335 ; how to get honey 
for, in centre of hive, 336 ; bee pas- 
sages in comb for, 337 (and noto 1), 
?39 (and note); in a dry vault or cel- 
lar, 348 ; in special repositories, 348- 
360; further experiments in, needed, 
360 ; requires caution in removing 
them from winter quarters, 361. 
Wives, a friendly word to, 220. 
Wood-cuts, explanation of, 11, 371. 
Women, American, suffer from bad ven 
Illation, 92. 
Worker-comb, size of the cells of, 74 ; all 
good, can bo used in mov. comb hive, 
130 ; not built unless bees have a 
mature queen, 149. 
Worker-bees, are females, with undevel- 
oped ovaries, 29 ; when fertile, their 
progeny always drones, 36 ; Hul er’s 
theory concerning fertile, 37 , 55; som« 
times exalted to be queens, 37 ; one 
raised from a drone egg, by Dr. I'6r. 
hoff, 41 ; incapable of impregnation, 
42 ; wood-cuts of, PI. XII., Figs. 35, 36 ; 
number of, iu swarm, 54; author’s 
opinion respecting fertile, 55 ; fertile 
prefer to lay in droue cells, 55; honey- 
bag, 56; representation of, PI. XVII., 
Fig. 54, A.; use of proboscis of, 56; 
wood-cut ot proboscis of, PI. XVI., 
Fig. 51 ; pollen basket, 56 ; sting, 56 ; 
wood-cut of, PI. XVII., Fig. 53 ; loss of 
sting, fatal. 57 ; do all the work of the 
hive, 58 : tneir age, 58; lesson of in 
dustry from, 59 ; attention to royal 
celis, 62 ; wood-cut of abdomen of, 1M. 
XVI., Fig. 52 ; two kinds of, described 
by Huber, 192 (nolo 2) ; differently 
occupied in different periods of life, 
194 ; impulse of, to gather honey, un- 
developed in early life, 195. 
Worms, see Bee-moth, larvte of, 
Wormwood, use of, for driving away 
robbing bees, 265 (note) . 
Wurtemberg, number of its colonies of 
bees, 304. 
Z. 
Zollickoffer, H M., his account of boot 
building combs on a tree, 118. 
