INDEX. 
401 
common bee, 320 ; Dzierzon’s experi- 
ments with, 320 ; frequent disturbances 
abate nothing from the industry of, 
321 (note) ; general diffusion of, do- 
sirablo, 321 ; superior to common bee, 
322, 324,325 ; peaceable disposition of 
322 ; may readily be introduced into 
hives of common bees, 322; furnishes 
new means of studying the habits of 
bees, 322 : the purity of, can be pre- 
served, b22 ; character of, as tested by 
Berlepsch, 324 ; number of queens 
obtained in ouo season, from one 
queen, 324; remarkable fact in rela- 
tion to hybrids, 324 (note) ; descrip- 
tion of, by Busch, 324 ; Kadlkoffer's 
account of, 325 ; how to introduce an 
Italian queen to a stock of common 
bees, 325 j advantages of author’s nou- 
ewarmer iu preserving the Italian bee 
pure, 320 ; how to produce abundance 
of drones of, 327 ; precaution suggest- 
ed when non-swarmer cannot be used, 
327 ; queeus of, safely moved in mov. 
comb hive, 327 ; introduction of, into 
this country, important, 328 ; arrange- 
ments to that end, 328 (note). 
Itinerating colonies, 305 (note 2 ). 
Ignorance, the occasion of the invention 
of costly and useless hives, 209 (and 
note). 
Increaso of colonies, rapid, impractica- 
ble, by natural swarming, 147 ; or by 
dividing hives, 149; rapid, cautions 
against, 175-178 ; rapid, incompatible 
with large yield of surplus honey, 170 ; 
a tenfold, possible , in mov. comb hive, 
178; sure, not rapid, to be aimed at, 
179 ; forming one new from two old 
colonies best, and how effected, 180; 
rapid, requires liberal feeding, 1S4. 
Inexperienced persons should not begin 
bee-keeping on a large scale, 282. 
Indian name for honey-bee, 236. 
Industry taught by tho bee, 69. 
Intemperate men compared to infatuated 
bees, 278. 
Intercommunication of bees in hives, im- 
portant, 103, 836, 337 (and note), 339 
(and note). 
Irving, Washington, his account of the 
abundanco of boos at the West, 236 
(note). 
Jansha, on impregnation of queen, 36. 
Japanese, voucration for birds, 253 
(note) . 
Jarring, disliked by bees, 96, 170, 309. 
Jolly, royal, tho food of immature 
queen, 63 ; a secretion of tho bees, 64 ; 
analysis of, 64 , effect of, in developing 
larvse, 64, 191 ; pollen necessary for 
its production, 197. 
Johnson, M. T., tho first American ob- 
server of the fact that quecnlcss stocks 
are soon destroyed by tho moth, 244 
(note). 
Kadcn, Mr., on over-stocking, 301. 
Killing bees for honey au invention of 
the dark ages, 239 (note); more hu- 
mane than to starve them, 238 ; not 
necessary, 239. 
Kindness of bees at home, a lesson for 
man, 312. 
King-bird, eats bees, 252. 
Kirby and Sponce on ants and aphides. 
285. * 
Kirtland, Dr. J. I’., his letter on tho In- 
troduction of tho beo moth, 240; on 
benefits of transferring stocks into 
mov. comb hive, 284. 
Knight on honey-dews, 286. 
Klcine, Rev. Mr., on making bees rear 
queens in selected cells, 191 ; his 
method of preventing robberies among 
bees, 265 (note); on feeding bees, 273; 
on over-stocking, 301 ; on accustoming 
tho human system to tho poison of 
bees, 316 (note). 
L. 
Larvae of honey-bee, development of, 44 
(1*1. XIII., Figs. 40, 41, 42); royal, 64 ; 
perish without ventilation, 89 ; of bee- 
moth, see bee moth, Larv® of; of 
honey bee, disease of, 269. 
Loidy, Dr. Joseph, his dissection of fertile 
and drone-laying queens, 34, 39, 213 
(note); of a queen just impregnated, 
126 (note). 
Light, bees will work when exposed to, 
16, 205, 332 ; its sudden admission, 
effect of, on bees, 168, 169 ; of day, 
uoeded for operations about tho hive. 
107. ’ 
Ligurian, or Italian, bee, 318 (note). 
Linden, or bass-wood tree, yields much 
honey, 293 (and note). 
Liriodeudron, yields much honey, 292. 
Locust, valuable for bees, 293. 
Lombard, his interesting anecdote of 
swarmiug, 308. 
Longfellow, H. W., his Indian warrior’s 
description of the bee, 236. 
Loss of queen, 213-227 ; frequent, though 
the queen is usually the last to perish 
in any casualty, 21. s ; when by old age, 
bees prepare for her successor, 213 ; 
occurs ofteuest when queen leaves 
hive for impregnation, 213, 214 ; how 
occasioned, by queens mistaking thoir 
hives, 214, 215 ; bees, like hens iu this 
respect, 215 ; Judge Fishback's pre- 
ventive of, 216 ; author's preventive, 
217 ; effect of, on stocks, 217 ; somo- 
