INDEX. 
405 
wings to prevent swarming, 173 ; may 
be coniined to prevent swarming, 
174 ; unfertile, should not be confined, 
175 ; fertile, easily supplied to desti- 
tute mother stocks, 18 L ; young, in 
after-swarms, lay few drone-eggs, 184 
(note) ; to raise, for artificial-swarm* 
log, 188 ; when to bo given to newly- 
forced swarms, 189 ; to induce bees to 
raise, on what part of the comb you 
please, 1§1 ; her valuo, 192 (note) ; 
can she be developed from any 
worker-larva)? 192 (note 2) ; made to 
supply several stoclcs with eggs, 193 ; 
will lay eggs while uuder inspection, 
198 (note); caution needed in giving, 
to strange stocks, 200 ; stranger, how 
to induce stocks to receive, 201 ; pro- 
tected by queen-cage, 201 ; care to be 
used in catching, 202 ; never stings, 
but sometimes bites, 202, 204 ; may 
be lost if allowed to fly, 202 ; her great 
appetite, 202 ; licr life indispensable to 
the safety of the colony, 204 ; loss of, 
see “ I/Oss of Queen;” young, daugers 
besetting, 213 ; should be given to 
queonless stocks in Spring, 221 ; when 
unimpreguated, colony should be 
watched, 222 ; when unimpregnated, 
hides, 222 ; wings of, may be clipped 
for artifleial fwarming, 222 ; how to 
mark the ago of, 223; fertility of, dimin- 
ished by hunger and cold, 223 (note 
1); should be removed in their third 
year, aud new one given, 223 ; regular 
and systematic, best, 223 (note 2); 
odor of, 226; romoval of, a remedy 
for foul-brood, 258 ; surplus, reared by 
Dzierzon, in suspected hives, 260 • de- 
serted by her subjects when they have 
been conquered by stronger stocks. 
263 (and note) ; should be removed 
before smothering the bees, when 
stocks are broken up for their honey, 
306 (note); Italian, howto propagate, 
326; after being chilled, lay only drone- 
eggs, 327. 
Queen Bees, why, when two light, both 
are not killed, 206 ; combat of, as wit- 
nessed in one of author's observing 
hives, 205 
Queen-cage, use and construction of, 201, 
326. 
Queen cells, see Royal cells. 
Qucenless stocks, sigus of, 219, 245 ; to 
be supplied with queens, 221 ; in Oc- 
tober, should be unitod with other 
stocks, 223 ; a sure prey to the moth, 
if not protected in time, 244 (and note"). 
Quinby, M., author of a very valuable 
work on bee-keeping, 249 (note) ; on 
the ravages of the larva) of boo-moth, 
249 (note) ; on shape of mov. comb 
hives, 330 (note 3); on wintering bees, 
348 ; on equalizing colonies when re- 
moved from Winter repository, 301 
note 2); on making bees work in a 
ouble tier of surplus honey-boxes, 
365 (note). 
R. 
Radlkofer, Doctor, on over-stocking, 300 ; 
on the Italian bee, 325. 
Rapping on hives, its effect on bees, 27, 
156, 204. 
Raspberry, one of the best bee-plants, 
and very abundant in hill towns oi 
New Englaud, 296. 
Reaumur, his account of a snail covered 
with propolis, by bees, 78 ; his error 
as to the treatment of strange queens 
by bees, 201 ; thought there were two 
species of bee-moth, 228. 
Reid, Dr., on the shape of honey-cells, 75. 
Religion, revealed, appeal to those who 
reject, 52. 
Remedies for bee-stings, 314-317. 
Riem, the first to notice fertile workers, 
65. 
Ringing bells, in swarming time, useless, 
113. 
Requisites of a complete hive, 95-108. 
Robbers, highway, bees sometimes act 
the part of, 262. 
Robbing, by bees, frequent, when forage 
is scarce, and caution against, 199,261, 
263 ; how prevented, 261-266; commit- 
ted chiefly on feeble or queenless colo- 
nies, 261 ; sigus indicating a bee en- 
gaged in, 261, 265 ; begets a disrelish 
for honest pursuits, 2G2, 264 (and 
note) ; movable ontrance blocks pro- 
tect bees against, 264 ; infatuation pro- 
duced by, on bees, 264; caution needed 
in checking, when a hive is vigorously 
attacked, 265 ; how to stop bees en- 
gaged in, 265 ; secret, its remedy, 266. 
Royal colls, described, 02 ; wood-cuts of, 
Plates XIII., XIV., aud XV.; attention 
paid to, by workers, 62 ; why they 
open downwards, 63 ; number of, in a 
hive, 63 ; how supplied with eggs, 63 ; 
description of, 66 ; when built, 111 ; 
queen prevented from destroying, 121 ; 
remains of, indicate number of queens 
hatched, 121 ; may bo removed in 
mov. comb hives, to prevent after 
swarming, 124 ; how to decide whether 
inmate of has been hatched or killed, 
121 ; how to cut out of combs, 166 ; 
sign that the queens in, are nearly 
mature, 167 ; how to make bees roar, 
in convoniont places on the comb, 191 ; 
to be given to colonies second day 
after removal of queen, 223. 
Royal jelly, see Jelly, royal. 
Ry’e-meal, see meal. 
S. 
I Sagacity of boes, 47 , 46. 
