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INDEX 
doue moro harm than good, 237, 
241. 
Peach-tree yields honey, 292. 
Pear-tree yields honey, 292. 
Peppermint, two of in uniting colonies, 
203. 
Perfection, folly of claiming for hives, 
106. 
Perfumes, disagreoable to bees, 313 
(note). 
Persoverauce of bees, worthy of imita¬ 
tion by man, 197. 
Persons attacked by bocs, directions for, 
312, 314. 
Peters, Randolph, interesting oxpori- 
meut of, 219 (note). 
Pillage of hives, secret, cause and rem¬ 
edy of, 266. 
Piping of quocns, an indication of after- 
swarining, 121. 
Plantain, a remedy for bee-stings, 315. 
Plum-tree a source of honey, 292. 
Poison of bees, smell of, strong and ir¬ 
ritating to bees, 314; effect of, on the 
eye, 314 (note); remedies for, 314- 
317; effect of, when taken into the 
mouth, 315; cold water the best rem¬ 
edy for, 315 ; a homoeopathic remedy, 
315 (note); the human system can bo 
inured to, 316 (note). 
Poisonous honey, and how to remove its 
injurious qualities, 2S7. 
Pollen, or bee-bread, 8U-87; found in 
stomachs of wax-makers, 80; may aid 
in secretion of wax, 80; whence ob¬ 
tained, 80; food of immature bees, as 
shown by lluber’s experiments, 80; 
author’s, to the same effect, 81 ; Gun- 
delach’s opinion of, 81; useful in se¬ 
cretion of wax, 82; bees prefer fresh 
to old, 82; in mov. comb hives, excess 
of, in old stocks, can bo given to 
others, 82; how gathered and stored 
by bees, 83; bees gathering, aid in 
impregnating plants, 83; bees collect, 
only from one kind of flower at a time, 
83; wheat and rye meal a substitute 
for, 81; necessary for the production of 
wax and jelly, 197 ; the gathering of, 
by bees, indicates a fertile queen in 
the hive, 219 (and note). 
Pol ion-basket, on log of bee, 56. 
Poppy, white, a remedy for bee-stings, 
315. 
Posel, discovery of, on use of sperma- 
theca, 36 (note). 
Proboscis of a worker, 56; wood-cuts of, 
Plates XIII., XVI., Figs. 63, 61. 
Profits of bee-keeping, Dzierzon’s expe¬ 
rience in, 21; SydsorlF’s calculation 
of, U6 (note); dependent on strong 
stocks, 176; difficulty of estimating, 
306 (note), safe estimate of, 306. 
Propolis, 70-80; whence obtained, 76; 
curious sources of, in Mexico, 77 ; its 
uses, 77; bee-moth lays her eggs in, 
78; curious nnocdotes, illustrating Its 
uses, 78. 
Prussia, boo-keeping encouraged by 
government of, 320 (note). 
Pupa, or bee-nymph, 45; beat required 
for its development, 40. 
Punk, smoko of, subdues bees, 27, 154. 
Q. 
Quoen-bee, wood-cut of (natural and 
magnified sizo), PI. XII., Pigs.31, 32; 
wood-cut of dvuries and spermatheca 
of, 35, PI. XV11I.; description of, 30; 
tbo mother of the whole colony, 30; 
affectionate treatment of, by the other 
bees, 31; effect of her loss on llio 
colony, 31; her fertility, 32; how her 
eggs are fecundated, 34—41; Iluber 
discovers impregnation of, to take 
place out of hivo, 34; dissection of, by 
Dr. Leidy, 34, 120 (note), 213 (note); 
effect of retarded impregnation on, 
36; she determines the sex of the egg, 
38; Dr. Leidy’s dissection of a drone- 
laying, 38, 126 (note), 213 (note); at- 
tompt of bees to rear, from a drone- 
egg, 39; account of a drone laying, 
afterwards laying worker eggs, 40; 
a drone laying, with shrivelled wings, 
40; Italian, impregnated by common 
drones, produce Italian drones, while 
the females are a cross, 41, 324 (note 
2); becomes incapable of impregna¬ 
tion, 42 ; process of laying, 43 ; devel¬ 
opment of. in pupa state, 46; enmity 
of, to each other, 46,120,205-207 ; can 
regulate development of eggs in her 
ovaries, 47 ; disposition by, of super¬ 
numerary eggs, 48; fertility ol\ de¬ 
creases with ago, 49, 223; longevity 
of, 49, 58; when superannuated, lays 
only drone-eggs, 49; why impreg¬ 
nated in the air, 53 ; office of, no sine¬ 
cure, 68; Italian, use of, to show how 
long workers live, 59; manner of rear¬ 
ing, 62 ; larva} of, effects of royal jelly 
on, 63; process of rearing in special 
emergency, 66; development of, an 
argument against infidelity, 68; old, 
leads first swarm, 111; often lost in 
swarming, 112; loss of, in swarming, 
causes bees to return to parent stock, 
113; howto prevent, from deserting 
new hive, 115; influence of, in causing 
hoes to cluster, 117 ; prevented by bees 
from killing inmates of royal cells, 
121; piping of, 121; soveral sometimes 
accompany after-swarms,122; emerges 
from her coll mature, 122; young more 
active on wing than old, 123; young 
ol'ton reluctant to leave hivo, 123; 
young, doos not leuvo for impregna¬ 
tion till established us solo head, 51, 
125; hor precautions to regain lioi 
