Index 
453 
Identification of plants difficult, 360. j 
Imbedding wire in foundation, 29. 
Importation of wax, 342. 
Improvement of stock, 427. 
Inbreeding, 429. 
Incomplete metamorphosis, 100. 
Increase, 284. 
Indiana, variations in swarming, 
77. 
Individual service, 319. 
Insect honey-dew, 371. 
Inside labor of the hive, 107. 
labor of young bees, 104. 
Inspection laws, 432. 
Instinct has physical basis, 104. 
limitations of, 34, 38. 
of gathering, 84. 
to swarm, 75. 
Introducing cages, 426. 
Inversion of sugar, 84, 241. 
Irish hive, 10. 
Isle of Wight disease, 410. 
Italian bees, 107, 197. 
for European foul brood, 408. 
Labels, 322, 331. 
Langstroth hive, 8, 26. 
Larval development, 100. 
diseases, 397. 
food, source, 111. 
Later embryonic development, 98. 
Laws concerning beekeeping, 431. 
spraying, 368. 
Leaf hopper, source of honey-dew, 
371. 
Learning beekeeping, 224. 
Legal rights to bee range, 16. 
Legs, 99, 102, 157. 
Lesser wax-moth, 414. 
Leveling hive, 239. 
Lifting honey, 300. 
Light in winter cellar, 353. 
List of honey-plants, 372. 
Literature on bees, 430. 
“Locality” and variation in practice, 
34. 
differences, 82, 205. 
Location for apiary, 18. 
for swarm, 274. 
Locomotion, 154. 
Losses in winter, 343. 
Mclndoo, 169. 
Mailing cages, 426. 
Malpighian tubes, 98, 153. 
Mandibles, 135. 
Manipulation for comb-honey, 313. 
of bees, object, 234. 
Marketing .bulk comb-honey, 330. 
comb-honey, 325. 
cxtracted-honey, 320. 
granulated honey, 330. 
honey, 320. 
wax, 339. 
Mating flight, 69. 
nuclei, 425. 
of queen, 42. 
Mechanical swarming devices, 284. 
Mellifcra vs. mcllifica, 37. 
Mellifica , varieties, 194. 
Memory, 179. 
lost in swarming, 74. 
Metabolism, 150. 
Metamorphosis, 100. 
Methods of spread of diseases, 403. 
of wintering, 349. 
Microsporidiosus, 410. 
Migratory beekeeping, 216. 
Miller, C. C., 267, 271. 
method of queen-rearing, 419. 
Minor sources of nectar, 364. 
Mixing honeys, 322. 
Moisture in winter, 345. 
Motion picture of bees, 72. 
Moults of larva, 103. 
Mouth-parts, 138. 
Movement, basis for behavior in¬ 
vestigations, 35. 
Moving bees, 250. 
staples for, 33. 
Muscular activity, source of heat, 
91. 
Nassenoff, 172. 
Natural nest, 46. 
Nectar, function, 360. 
gathering, 81. 
gathering instinctive, 184. 
present loss of, 4. 
sources, 359. 
Nelson, 94. 
Nervous system, 162. 
I Nest, arrangement, 50. 
