INDEX. 
397 
Composition for corners of hives, to 
secure them from moths, 78. 
Confectioners, how they may prevent 
uuuoyunce from bees, 277. 
Control of comb, essential to a true sys¬ 
tem of bee culture, 208. 
Corsica, ancient, yield of honey of, 304. 
D. 
Dnmpness, injurious to bees, 90, 95,338- 
342, 345,348; produces dysentery. 250. 
Dandelion, furnishes honey and pollen, 
291?. 
Dangers of too rapidly multiplying 
stocks, 17G-178; of using hives of 
uniform size, shape, and color, 214. 
Daylight, needed for operations on 
bees, 107. 
Denmark, its honey produce, 304. 
Desertion of hives by swarms, indica¬ 
tions and prevention of, 115. 
Diseases of lg*e$, 255-200. 
Dishonesty, as poor policy in bees as in 
men, 202. 
Dissection of queen bees, 84, 213 (note). 
Disturbing bees in cold weather, injuri¬ 
ous, 250, 336, 347 , 355. 
Dividing hives, worthless for artificial 
swarming, 149,150. 
DonholT, Dr., on artificial impregnation 
of a drone-egg, 41; on thickness of 
sides of cells, 71 (note); his mode of 
forced swarming, li 3; his experiment 
indicating a division of labor among 
hoes according to age, 194; on food 
of bee-moth larva*, 233 (note); on 
eggs of beo-moth, 234 (note 2). 
Double stocks, produce a largo yield of 
honey, 136. 
Doubling stocks yearly, 185. 
Draining combs of honey, 288. 
Drawings, explanation of, for making 
mov. comb hive, 371. 
Drowi-coinb, wood-cut of, PI. XV., Fig. 
48 ; the cause of excess of, 51; excess 
of, should be removed from breeding 
apartments, 51, 225; if now, advan¬ 
tageous in boxes for surplus honey, 
130. 
Drone-eggs, not Impregnated, 37; at¬ 
tempt of bees to roar a queen from, 
39; artificial impregnation of, 41; 
laid by superannuated queens, 49. 
Drone-laying queens, 38, 40, 213 (note); 
use to bo made of, 214 (note), 327. 
Drones, or male bees, produced by re¬ 
tarded impregnation of queens, 3(5; 
always by unfccuiidated eggs, 37; 
often by unfeeundated queens, 37, 
127 (note); their development from 
egg to insect, 46; description and 
wood-cuts of, 49; PI. XII., Figs. 33. 34 
(natural and magnified size); oflice 
of, to impregnate young queens, 49; 
time of their appearance, 60; often 
very numerous, 50; how to prevent 
excessive multiplication of, 51; why 
destroyed by workers, 52,224; wisdom 
displayed in providing so many, 53; 
length of life, 58; perish in impreg¬ 
nation of queen, 125,12G (note); never 
molest queens in hive, 127 (note); on 
leaving the hive, are filled with 
honey, but on returning are empty, 
224 ; Butler’s description of, 224 ; de¬ 
stroyed by aucieut bee-keepers, 51, 
225; easily destroyed by use of mov. 
comb hive, 225; their anxiety when 
excluded from the hive, 225; their 
odor, 226 (note 1); how to prevent 
common, from impregnating Italian 
queens, 326; refrigerated queens pro¬ 
duce only, 327. 
Drought, failure occasioned by, 178 
(note). 
Drumming on hive subdues bees, 210 
(note). 
Dunbar, his description of how queen 
lays. 43. 
Dysentery from had ventilation, 90; 
from dampness and sour honey, 256; 
how prevented, 256 ; makes bees 
cross, 310; caused by want of water 
in Winter, 343. 
Dzierzon, facts connected with the in¬ 
vention of his hive, 19; rise of his 
system, 19; his apiary nearly de¬ 
stroyed by “foul brood,” 19; com¬ 
mittee of apiarian convention report 
favorably on his system, 20; it creates 
a revolution in German bee-keeping, 
20; profits of bis apiary, 21; discov¬ 
ered that unfecundated eggs produce 
males, 37; thinks some brood may be 
raised without pollen, 81; discovered 
rye meal to bo 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, 296; on the difficulty of 
estimating profits of bee-culture, 306 
(note); his experiments with tho 
Italian bee, 820; thinks bees not In¬ 
jured by the opening of their hives, 
321 (note); his mode of wintering 
bees, 348. 
E. 
Eggs of bees, how fecundated, 35; fecun¬ 
dated produce females, unfecundated, 
males, 37; sex of, determined by 
queen, 38; what is necessary to their 
impregnation, 41; no difference in size 
between drone and worker eggs, 42; 
process of laying, 43; description ot, 
