INDEX 
A. 
Adobe, for hives, 331 (note 2). 
Advantages required in complete hives, 
96-108. 
Adventure, amusing, in search of honey, 
254. 
After swarming, 120; causes and indi- 
cations of. 121 ; easily prevented in 
mov. comb hives, 124, 140 ; evils of, 
140 ; author’s mode of obviating evils 
of, before invention of mov. comb 
hive, 140 (note) ; excessive, exposes 
stock to bee-moth, 243. 
After-swarms, easily strengthened in 
mov. comb hives, 140 ; when to ex- 
pect, 122 ; often issue in bud weather, 
122 ; often have more than one queen, 
122 ; seriously reduce strength of par- 
ent-stocks, 124, 140 ; wise arrangement 
concerning, 124 ; easily prevented in 
mov. comb hive, 124 weak, of little 
valuo, 140, 141 ; returning of, to parent 
stock, or doubling, unprolltuble, 140; 
make few drone-cells the first season, 
184 (note). 
Age, of bees, 68 ; queen-bee, 49 ; of 
workers, proved from Italian bee, 59 
(note); signs of old, 59; of colonies, 
69 ; of queens, designated by the clip- 
pings of their wings, 223. 
Air, necessary for bees 88 ; bees need in 
Winter, 89, 338 : pure, necessary for 
eggs, brood, and bees, 89 ; pure, neces- 
sary for health of man, 91 ; abundance 
of, supplied by mov. comb hive, 94 ; 
new swarms require more than old, 
281; cold, alarms bees, 311, (note); 
how to give in Winter, to mov. comb 
hives, 338. 
Air-tight stoves, deficient in ventilation, 
92. 
Alighting-board, should shelter from 
wind and wet, 103 ; improved by at- 
taching muslin, 279 (note) : PI. V., 
Figs. 16, 17. 
Alsikc, or Swedish white clovor, 294 ; 
value of, for bees and stock, 295. 
Americau women, their sull'eriugs from 
bad ventilation, 92. 
Analysis of royal jelly, 64. 
Angor of bees, 308-314 ; difficult to re- 
press, when once aroused, 170 ; excit- 
ed by the human breath, quick mo- 
tions, or jarring, 170 ; and sometimes 
by smoke, 168 (note); should not bo 
violently repelled, 170 ; occasioned by 
disease, 266 (note); never necessary 
to provoke a colony to, 309 ; when 
provoked to, terribly vindictive, 310 ; 
of dyspeptic bees, troublesome, 310 ; 
bee-hat, a protection from, 310 ; But- 
ler’s directions how to prevent the 
rising of, 311 ; warm breath provokes, 
311 (note 2) ; when excited, how to 
act, 311 ; never excited away from 
home, 3i2 ; excited by disagreeablo 
odors, and uncleauly persons, 313 ; 
aroused by a smell of the bee-poisou, 
314 ; and by rough and hairy substan- 
ces, 317. 
Ants, white, their fecundity, 32 ; some- 
times injure bees, 265 ; small, harm- 
less, 255 (note); extravagantly fond 
of honey, 287. 
Aphides, singular mode of propagation 
of, 42 ; description of, 285 ; cause of 
honey-dew, 285. 
Apiarians, see Bee-keepers. 
Apiaries, must bo closely watched in 
s warming-season, 143 ; large, rendered 
difficult by natural swarming, 146 ; 
danger of crowded, 214 ; stocking. &c., 
279-284 ; in establishing, a knowledge 
of the honey resources of the locality 
important, 279 (and note 1); should bo 
protected from high winds, and from 
cattle, and sweaty horses, 279 (note 
2) ; should be in sight of occupied 
rooms, 279 ; proper exposure for, 279 ; 
covered, objectionable, 280 ; shaded, 
agreeable to bees, 280 ; location of, 
how to change, 280 ; procuring bees 
for, 280 ; to seouro bees iu their hives, 
for removal to, 281 ; precautions to bo 
observed in moving hives to, 281 ; 
transferring bees from common to 
mov. comb hive, for, 282 ; large, in 
Kuropc, 300 ; should be fenced against 
cattle and horses, 313. 
Apple-tree, yields much honey, 292. 
Apricot-tree, honey -yielding, 292. 
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