INDEX. 
401 
Italian honoy-bops, 41; Kingiilar rpsult 
of ci'OHsing with cuiniuon drones, 41, 
324 (note ii); u.spd to nhow a ilivision 
of labor aniung bees, 194; acrotint of, 
313-328; deacribctl by Aristotle ami 
Virgil. 318; Mr. Wagner’s letter on, 
318; their inodern introdnetion tt> 
notice, 318 ; value of, in the stmly of 
the physiology of the honey-bee, 319: 
cells of, tliu eaiue size as tho.se of the 
coininoti bee, 320; Dzierzoii's e.xperi- 
nients with, 320; frerpieiit disturb¬ 
ances abate nothing from tlie indu.stry 
of, 321 (note); general dilfnsion of, 
di-sirable, 321; superior to coinnion 
bi‘e, 322, 324, 32.'»; pcacoable dispo¬ 
sition of, 322; may readily bo intro¬ 
duced into hives of coinnion bees, 322; 
furnishes new means of studying the* 
habits of bees, 322; the purity of, can 
be preserved. 322; charactei' of, as 
tested by Herlepscb, 324; number of 
queens obtained in one seicsoii, from 
one queen, 324; riMiiarkable fact in 
relation to hybrids, 324 (note); ile- 
scription of, by lluscb, 324; Uadlkof- 
fer's account of. 325; bow to intro¬ 
duce an Italian queen to a stock of 
common bees, 325; advantages of au¬ 
thor’s non-swarim-r in jireserving the 
Italian bee pure, 326; how to produce 
abundance of drones of, 327; precau¬ 
tion suggested wlien non-swarmer 
cannot be used, 327; queens of, safely 
moved in niov. comb hive, 327 ; intro- 
iluction of, into this country, impor¬ 
tant, 328; arrangements to that end, 
328 (note). 
Itinerating colonies, 305 (note 2). 
Ignorance, the occasion of the inven¬ 
tion of costly and useless hives, 209 
(and note). 
Increase of colonies, rapid, impracti- 
calile, by natural swarming, 147; or 
by dividing hive.x, 149; rapid, cautions 
against, 175-178; rapid, incompatible 
with large yiebl ot surplus honey, 
176; a tenfold. 7>o.?si5/r. in mov. conih 
liive, 178; sure, not rapid, to bo aimed 
at, 179; forming one new from two 
obi eolonies licNt, ami how efTected, 
180; nqiid, requires liberal feeding, 
181. 
Ini*xperiencod piusons sbonld not begin 
bee-keeping on a largo scale, 282. 
Iinlian name for honey-bee, 236. 
Industry taught hy tlie bee. 59. 
Intemperate men compared to infatu¬ 
ated bees, 278. 
Intercommunication of bees in hives, 
important, 103, 336, 337 (and note), 
339 (and note). 
li ving. Washington, his account of the 
ubundunco of bees at the West, 236 
(note). 
J. 
Janshn, on impregnation of queen, 36. 
Jiipiiiiese, vc-iic'ration for birds, 253 
(note). 
Jarring, disliked by bees, 98,170, 300. 
Jelly, royal, the food of imiiiatiiro 
queen, 63; a secretion of the bees, 64 ; 
analysis of, 64 ; effect of, in devel<*ping 
larvjc, 04, 191; pollen necessary for 
its production, 197. 
Johnson, M. T., the first American ob¬ 
server of tho fact tliat queenless 
stocks are soon destroyed J>y tho 
inotb, 241 (note). 
Kaden, Mr., on over-stocking, 301. 
Killing bees for honey, an invention of 
the dark nge.s, 239 (note); more hn- 
mane than to starvu them, 23S; not 
nece.ssary. 239. 
Khiilness of bees at home, a lesson for 
man, 312. 
King-bir<l. eats bees, 252. 
Kirby ami Spence on ants and aphides, 
285. 
Kirllaml, Dr. J. P., his letter on tho in- 
trodnction of the bee-moth, 210; on 
benefits of transferring stocks into, 
mov. comb hive, 284. 
Knight on honey-dews, 286. 
Kleine, Itev, Mr., on making bees rear 
queens in selected cell.s, 191; his 
method of preventing robberies 
aiming bees, 265 (note): on feeding 
bees, 273; on over-Ntockhig, 3ol; on 
accustoming thebnman .system to tho 
poison of bees. 310 (note). 
Larva* of honey-bee, development of, 44 
(PI. Xlll., Fig.s, 40,41, 42); royal, 6-4; 
peri.sh without ventilation, 89; of bee- 
moth, see bee-moth, Ijirvw of; of 
honey-he(*, disease of, 259. 
Lt*idy, I>r. Joseph, his ilissection of fer¬ 
tile ami drone-laying queens. 34,39, 
213 (note); of a qiiei'u ju.st impreg¬ 
nated. 126 (note), 
Liglif, bees will work when e.xpo.sed to, 
10, 205, 3.32; its sudden admission, 
elTi'Ct of, on hi*»*s. DJS, 169; of <lay, 
needed lor operations about the hive. 
167. 
Ligurian, or Italian bee. 318 (note). 
Linden, or bass-wtuid tree, yields much 
honey, 293 (and note). 
Lirlodcmiron, yields much honey, 292. 
Locu.st, valuable for bees, 21*3. 
