INDEX, 
409 
Weather, unpleasant, delays of prevents 
swarming, 112. 
West India honey, as bee-food, 266 
(note). 270. 
Wethcrell. Dr. C. if., his analysis of 
royal jolly, G4. 
Wheaton, Devi, on upward ventilation, 
276 (note 1); on wintering bees, 346 
(note 1). 
White clover, see Clover, white. 
Weigel, Rev. Mr., first recommended 
candy, as bee-feed, 272. 
Wheeler, George, on ancient bar-hives, 
210 (note). 
Willow, varieties of, abound in honey 
and pollen, 292. 
Wild man, Thomas, feats of, in handling 
bees, 308 ; states the fact that fear 
disposes colonies to unite, 203 (note); 
his approach to modern moues of 
taming bees, 204 (note) ; on the queen’s 
odor, 226 . ’ 
Winds, bees should be protected against, 
103, 186, 279. 
Wings of quoons, may be made to mark 
their age, 223. 
Winter, wasps and hornets, but not 
bees, torpid in, 109, 336 ; quantity of 
honey needed by a stock in, 274 ; 
bees eat less in, when kept quiet, 335, 
365, 358 ; bees should bo protected 
from winds of, 337 : bees in, if out of 
doors, should be allowed to fly, 337 ; 
how to ventilate hives in, 338; snow 
in, when injurious to bees, 338 (note 
1); bees need water in, 842-346; when 
honey is candied in, bees need water, 
342-344 ; disturbing bees in, injurious, 
347, 355 ; fewer bees die in. when 
hives are in clamps, than when in 
other special depositories, 358 ; tem- 
porary removal of colonics in, to a 
, warm room, 341, 362. 
Wintering boes, 335-361 ; objections to, in 
the open air, 835 ; how to get honey 
for, in centre of hive, 336 ; bee pas- 
sages in comb for, 337 (and noto 1), 
339 (and note) ; in a dry vault or cel- 
lar, 348 ; in special repositories, 348- 
360; further experiments in, needed. 
360 ; requires caution in removing 
them from winter quarters, 361. 
Wives, a friendly word to, 220. 
Wood-cuts, explanation of, 11, 371. 
Women, American, suffer from bad ven- 
tilation, 92. 
Worker-comb, size of the cells of, 74 ; all 
good, can bo used in mov. comb hive, 
130 ; 'not built unless bees have a 
mature queen, 149. 
Worker-bees, arc remales, with undevel- 
loped ovaries, 29 • when fertile, their 
. progeny always drones, 36 ; Hui cr’s 
* theory concerning fertile, 37, 55; some- 
times exalted to be queens, 37 ; one 
raised from a drone egg, by Dr. D6n- 
hofl', 41 ; incapablo of impregnation, 
42 ; wood-cuts of, PI. XII., l-'igs. 35, 36 ; 
number of, in swarm, 64 ; author’s 
opinion respecting fertile, ?5 ; fertile 
prefer to lay in drone cells, 55; honey - 
bag, 66; representation of, PI. XVII., 
Fig. 64, A.; use of proboscis of, 56; 
wood-cut of proboscis of, PI. XVI., 
Fig. 51 ; pollen basket, 56 ; sting, 66 ; 
wood-cut of, PI. XVII., Fig. 53 ; loss of 
sting, fatal. 57 ; do all the work of the 
hive, 58 : tnclr age, 68 ; lesson of in- 
dustry from, 59 ; attention to royal 
cells, 62 ; wood-cut of abdomen of, PI. 
XVI., Fig. 52 ; two kinds of, described 
by Huber, 192 (note 2) ; differently 
occupied in different periods of life, 
194 ; impulse of, to gather honey, un- 
developed in oarly life, 195. 
Worms, see Bee-moth, larva) of, 
Wormwood, use of, for driving away 
robbing bees, 266 (note). 
Wurtemberg, number of its colonies of 
bees, 304. 
Z. 
Zollickolfer, II. M., his account of boee 
building combs on a tree, 118. 
