INDEX. 
397 
Composition for cornors of hives, to 
secure them from moths, 78. 
Confectioners, how they may prevent 
annoyance from bees, 277. 
Control of comb, essential to a true sys- 
tem of bee-culture, 208. 
Corsica, ancient, yield of honey of, 304. 
D. 
Dampuess, injurious to bees, 90, 95, 838- 
312, 345, 348 ; produces dysentery , 250. 
Dandelion, furnishes honey and pollen, 
292. 
Dangers of too rapidly multiplying stocks, 
170-178; of using hives of uniform 
size, shape, and color, 214. 
Daylight, ueedod for operations on bees, 
107. 
Denmark, its honey-produce, 304. 
Desertion ol‘ hives by swarms, indications 
and prevention of, 115. 
Diseases of bees, 255-260. 
Dishonesty, as poor policy in bees as in 
men, 262. 
Dissection of queen bees 34, 213 (uote). 
Disturbing bees in cold weather, inju- 
rious, 256, 335,347,355. 
Dividing hives, worthless for artificial 
swarming, 149, 150. 
DSuholf, Dr., on artificial impregnation 
of a drone-egg, 41 ; on thickness of 
sides of colls, 71 (note); his mode of 
forced swarming, 163 ; his experiment 
indicating a division of labor among 
bees according to age, 194 ; on food of 
bee moth larvae, 233 (note); on eggs 
of bee-moth, 234 (uote 2). 
Double-stocks, produce a largo yield of 
honey, 135. 
Doubling stocks yearly, 185. 
Draining combs of honey, 288. 
Drawings, explanation of, for making 
mov. comb hive. 371. 
Drone-comb, wood-cut of, PI. XV., Fig. 
48 ; the cause of excess of, 61 ; excess 
of, should bo removed from breeding 
apartmonts, 51, 225 ; if new, advauta 
geous in boxes for surplus honey, 130. 
Drone-eggs, not impregnated, 37; attempt 
of bees to roar a queen from, 39 ; arti- 
ficial impregnation of, 41 ; laid by 
superannuated queens, 49. 
Drone-laying queens, 38,40,213 (note); 
use to be made of, 214 (note), 327. 
Drones, or male-bees, produced by re- 
tarded impregnation of queens, 30 ; 
always by unfecundated eggs, 37 ; 
often by unfocundatod quocus,37, 127 
(note) ; their development from egg 
to iusect, 46 ; description aud wood- 
cuts of, 49 ; PI. XII.. Figs. 33, 34 
(natural aud magnified size) ; offlee 
of, to impregnate young queens, 49 ; 
time of thou- appearance, 60 ; often 
very numerous, 60 ; how to prevent 
excessive multiplication of, 51 • why 
destroyed by workers, 62, 224 ; wis- 
dom displayed in providing so many, 
53 ; length of life, 58 : perish in im- 
pregnation ol‘ queen, 125, 126 (uote); 
never molest queens in hive, 1*27 
(note); on leaving the hive, are filled 
with honey, but on returning are 
empty, 224 ; Butler’s description of, 
224 ; destroyed by ancient bee-keepers, 
51,' 225 ; easily destroyed by use of 
mov. comb hive. 225 ; their anxiety 
when excluded from the hive, 225 ; 
their odor, 226 (noto 1): howto pre- 
vent common, from impregnating 
Italian queens, 326 ; refrigerated 
queens produce only, 327. 
Drought, failure occasioned by, 178 
(noto). 
Drumming on hive subdues bees, 210 
(note). 
Dunbar, bis description of how queen 
lays, 43. 
Dysentery from bad ventilation, 90; 
from dampness and sour honey, 256 ; 
how prevented, 256 ; makes bees cross, 
310 ; caused by want of water iu 
Winter, 343. 
Dziorzou, tacts connected with the inven- 
tion of his hive, 19 ; rise of his system, 
19 ; his apiary nearly destroyed by 
“ foul brood,” 19 ; committee of apia- 
rian convention report favorably on 
his system, 20 ; it creates a revolution 
in German bee-keeping, 20 ; profits 
of his apiary, 21 ; discovered that un- 
focundated eggs produce males, 37 ; 
thinks some brood may be raised 
without pollen, 81 ; discovered rye- 
ineal to bo a good substitute for pol- 
len, 84 ; supposes sound of queen’s 
wings excites drones, 127 (note) ; his 
mode of forcing swarming, 1S6 ; his 
estimate of the value of a queen, 192 
(note) ; his treatment of foul brood. 
257 ; recommends the cultivation of 
buckwheat, 296 ; on the difficulty of 
estimating profits of bee-culture, 306 
(note) ; his experiments with the Ital- 
ian boo, 320 ; thiuks bees not iqjured 
by the opening of their hives, 321 
(note) ; his mode of wintering bees, 
E. 
Eggs of bees, how fecundated, 35 ; fecun- 
dated produce females, unfecundated, 
males, 37 ; sex of, determined by queen, 
38 ; what is necessary to their impreg- 
nation, 41 ; no difference in size be- 
tween drone and worker eggs, 42 ; 
process of laying, 43 ; description of. 
44 ; PI. XIII., Fig. 39 ; degree of heat 
necessary to hatch them , 46 ; power 
