INDEX 
397 
Composition for corners of hives, to 
sec-nro them from moths, 78. 
Conl^uctioneiH, how tlioy^nmy prevent 
nnuoyunce from lives, 277. 
Control of comb, es.seiitial to ft true sys¬ 
tem of bee cultme, 20S. 
Corsicft, ancient, yield of honey of, 304. 
R. 
Dampness, injurious to bees, 90, 05,338- 
342, .345,348; prodtices dysentery, 
Dandelion, furnishes honey and pollen, 
292. 
Dangers of too rapidly multiplying 
stocks, 17G-1781 of using hives of 
uniform size, shape, and color, 214. 
Daylight, needed for operations on 
bees, 107. 
DenimvrU, its honey produce, 304. 
Desertion of hives by swarms, indica- 
tion.s and prevention of, 115. 
Disea.ses of bees, 255-2t)0. 
Dishonesty, as poor policy in bees as in 
men, 202. 
Dissection of ijucen bee.s, 34, 213 (note). 
Disturbing bee.s in cold weather, injuri¬ 
ous, 250, 335, 347, 35i). 
Dividing hives, wortliless for artificial 
swarming, 149, lAti. 
Donhoff, Dr., on artificial impregnation 
of a drtine-egg, 41; on thickness of 
sides of cells, 71 (note); his mode of 
forced swarming, I' 3 ; his experiment 
indicating a division of labor among 
bees according to age, 194; on food 
of bec-molh larvie, 233 (note); on 
eggs of bee-moth, 2144 (note 2).^ 
Double stocks, produce a large yield of 
honey, 135. 
Doubling stocks yearly, 185. 
Draining cotnbs of honey, 288. 
Drawings, explanation of, for making 
mov. comb hive, 371. 
Drone-coiiib, wooil-cnt of, 1*1. XV., Fig. 
4S; (he cause of excess of, 61; e.xcess 
of, should be reiiKived from breeding 
aiiiii'tments, 51, 22f); if new, advan¬ 
tageous in boxes for surplus honey, 
13(J. 
Drone-eggs, not impregnated, 37; at¬ 
tempt of bees to rear a queen from, 
39; artificial impregnation of, 41; 
laid by snperannuateil queens, 49. 
Drone-laying (|neens, 3S, 49, 213 (note); 
use to lie made of, 214 (note), 327. 
Droiie.s, or male bees, produced by re¬ 
tarded impregnation of queens, 30; 
always by unfecundated eggs, 37; 
often by'unfecundated queens, 37, 
127 (note); their development from 
egg to insect, 49; de.seription and 
Wood-cuts of, 49; 1*1. XII.. Figs. 33, 34 
(natural and nmgiiitie«l size); office 
of, to impregnato young queens, 49; 
time of their appoaiance, 50; often 
very numerous, 59; how to prevent 
exc'e.sHive multiplication of. 51; why 
destroyed by workers, 52,224 ; wisdom 
displuved in providing so nmny, 53; 
length of life, 58; perish in impreg- 
nalioiiol queen, 125,128 (note); never 
mole.'it queens in hive, 127 (note); on 
leaving the hive, are filled with 
honey, but on returning are enqity, 
224; Sutler’s description of, 224; de¬ 
stroyed by ancient bee-keepers, 51, 
225; easily ilestroyed by use ol nu.v. 
comb hive, 225; their anxiety when 
excluded from tho hive, 22«j; their 
odor, 226 (note 1); how to prevent 
common, fiom impregnating Italian 
queens, 320; refrigerated queens pro¬ 
duce only,327, 
Drought, failure occasioned by, 178 
(note). 
Dnimming on hive subdues bees, 210 
(note). 
Dunbar, his description of how queen 
lay.**, 43, 
Dysentery from bad ventilation, 90; 
from ihinipne.Hs and sour honey, 250; 
how prevented, 2r)6; makes bees 
cross, 319; caused by want of water 
in Winter, 343. 
Dzier/.un, fuct.s connected with tho in¬ 
vention of his hive, 19; rise of his 
system, 19; his apiary nearly de¬ 
stroyed by “foul brood,'’ 19; com¬ 
mittee of apiarian eonventiou report 
favorably on liis system, 20; it creates 
a revolution in German bee-keeping, 
29; profits of his apiary. 21; discov¬ 
ered that unfecumlatcd eggs produce 
males, 37; thinks some brood may be 
raised without pollen, 81; discovered 
rye meal to be a good substitute for 
pollen, 84 ; supposes sound of queen's 
wings excites drones, 127 (note); his 
mode of forcing swarming, 180; his 
estimate of the value of a queen, 192 
(note); his treatment of foul brood, 
257 ; recommends the cultivation of 
buckwheat, 290; on the difficulty of 
estimating jirolits of bee-culture, 306 
(noleV, bis experiments with tho 
Italian bee, 3*29; thinks bees not in¬ 
jured by the openitig of their hives, 
321 (note); his mode of wintering 
bee.s, 318. 
K. 
Eggs of bees, how fecundated, 35; fecun¬ 
dated produce females, uufecumlated, 
males, 37; sex of, determineil by 
(lueen, 38; wbat is necessary to their 
impregnation, 41; uodilTerenee in size 
between drone and worker egg.s, 42; 
process of laying, 43; description of, 
