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INDEX. 
Piping of queens, an indication of after- 
swarming, 121. 
Plautaiu, a remedy for beo-stlngs, 315. 
Plum-tree, a source of honey, 292. 
Poison of bees, smell of, strong and irri- 
tating to bees, 314 ; effect of, on the 
eye, 314 (note) ; remedies for, 314- 
317 ; effect of, when taken into the 
mouth, 315 ; cold water the best rem- 
edy for, 315 ; a homoeopathic remedy, 
315 (note) ; the human system can be 
inured to, 316 (note). 
Poisonous honey, and how to remove its 
injurious qualities, 2S7. 
Pollen, or boe-bread, 80-87 ; found in 
stomachs of wax-makers, 80 ; may aid 
in secretion of wax, 80 ; whence ob- 
tained, 80 ; food of immature bees, as 
shown by Huber’s experiments, 80 ; 
author’s, to the same effect, SI ; Gun- 
delach’s opinion of, 81 ; useful in se- 
cretion of wax, 82 ; bees prefer fresh 
to old, 82 ; in mov. comb hives, excess 
of, in old stocks, can be given to others, 
82 ; how gathered and stored by bees, 
83 ; bees gathering, aid in impregnating 
plants, 83 ; bees collect, only from one 
kind of flower at a time, 83 ; wheat and 
rye meal a substitute for, 84 ; neces- 
sary for the production of wax and jelly , 
197 ; the gathering of, by bees, indi- 
cates a fertile queon in the hive, 219 
(and note). 
Pollen-basket, on leg of bee, 56. 
Poppy, white, a remedy for bee-stings, 
315. 
Posel, discovery of, on use of sperma- 
theca, 36 (note). 
Proboscis of a worker, 56 ; wood-cuts of, 
Plates XIII., XVI., Figs. 63, 51. 
Profits of bee-keeping, Dzierzon’s expo- 
ricncc in. 21 ; Sydserfl’s calculation of, 
146 (note) ; dependent on strong stocks, 
176 ; difficulty of estimating, 306 
(uoto) ; safe estimate of, 306. 
Propolis, 76-80; whence obtained, 76; 
curious sources of, in Mexico, 77 ; its 
uses, 77 ; bee-moth lays her eggs in, 
78 ; curious anecdotes, illustrating its 
uses, 78. 
Prussia, bee-keeping encouraged by gov- 
ernment of, 320 (note). 
Pupa, or bee-nymph, 45 ; heat required 
for its development, 46. 
Punk, smoko of, subdues bees, 27, 154. 
Q. 
Queen-bee, wood-cut of (natural and 
magnified size), PI. XII., Figs. 31. 32 ; 
wood-cut of ovaries and spormatnoca 
of, 35, PI. XVIII. ; description of, 30 ; 
the mother of the whole colony, 30; 
affectionate treatment of, by the other 
bees, 31 : cfTect of her loss on the 
colony, 31 ; her fertility, 32; how her 
eggs are fecundated, 34-41; Huber 
discovers impregnation of, to tako 
place out of hive, 34; dissection of, by 
1) r. Leidy, 34, 126 (note), 213 (note); 
effect of retarded impregnation on, 
36 ; she determines the sex of the egg, 
38 ; Dr. Lcidy’s dissection of a drone- 
laying, 38, 126 (note), 213 (note); at- 
tempt of bees to rear, from a drone- 
egg, 39 ; account of a drone laying, 
afterwards laying worker eggs, 40; 
a drone laying, with shrivelled wings, 
40; Italian, impregnated by common 
drones, produce Italian drones, while 
tho females are a cross, 41, 324 (note 
2) ; becomes incapable of impregna- 
tion, 42 ; process of laying, 43 ; devel- 
opment of, in pupa state, 46; enmity 
of, to each other, 46, 120, 205-207 ; can 
regulate development of eggs in her 
ovaries, 47; disposition by, of super- 
numerary eggs, 48; fertility of, de- 
creases with ago, 49, 223 ; longevity 
of, 49,58; when superannuated, lays 
only drone-eggs, 49; why impreg- 
nated in the air, 53; offico of, no sine- 
cure, 58: Italian, use of, to show how 
long workers live, 59 ; manner of rear- 
ing, 62 ; larvie of, effocts of royal jelly 
on, 63; process of rburing in special 
emergency, 66; development of, an 
argument* against infidelity, 68; old, 
leads first swarm, 111 ; often lost in 
swarming, 112 ; loss of, in swarming, 
causes bees to return to parent stock, 
113 ; how to prevent, from deserting 
new hive, 115 ; influence of, in causing 
bees to cluster, 117 ; prevented by 
bees from killing inmates of royal 
cells, 121 ; piping of, 121 ; several 
sometimes accompany after-swarms, 
122 ; emerges from her coll mature, 
122 ; young more active on wing thuu 
old, 123 ; young often reluctant to 
leave hive, 123 ; young, does not 
leave for impregnation till established 
as sole head, 51, 125 ; her precautions 
to regain her hive, 125 ; never molest- 
ed by drones in hive, 127 (note) ; 
begins laying two days after impreg- 
nation, 128 ; lays mostly workor-eggs 
tho first year, 128; never stings, ex- 
cept in combat with other queens, 
136,204 ; alacrity of, in entering hive 
for now swarm, 136 ; young, often lost 
after swarming, 141 ; her loss easily 
remedied by mov. comb hive, 141 ; 
unfertile, difficult to remove in com- 
mon hives, 141 ; when Immature, bees 
do not build worker-comb, 149 ; sel- 
dom enters side-apartments, 152 ; 
signs indicating her presence or ab- 
sence in forced swarms, 158; supply 
of sealed, for forced swarming, how to 
socure, 106 ; how to cut sealed ones 
from comb, 166 ; fertile, deprived of 
