INDEX. 
407 
country than they wore years ago, 
146; often rofUBe to swarm, 139, 145, 
147; now, work bettor than old, 153; 
If weak in Spring, usually uuprollt- 
iildo, and eoinotlinos require to ho fed, 
177 ; the less disturbed, tho hotter for 
surplus honey, 180; host mode for 
rapid increase of, 184; doubling, tre¬ 
bling, Ac., 185; subject to grout loss 
of boos in storms, 180; rapid increase 
of, hopeless in vicinity of sugar- 
houses, Ac., 199; hostility of, to 
strange queens, 200; when united, 
tho bees should bo gorged with honey, 
204; will adhere to tho hive when tho 
queen is lost, if supplied with brood- 
comb, 218; quoonless, should bo 
brokcu up, if not supplied with a 
queen or brood-comb, 218; Spring 
care* of, 221; healthy, destroy the 
drones when forage is scarce, 224; 
weak, with uncovered comb, infested 
by mot hs, 242; suffering from hunger, 
are an easy prey to tho moth, 246 
(and note). 
Blocks, union of, see Union of colonics. 
Stomach of worker, wood-cut of, PI. 
XVII., Fig. 64. 
Stoves, air-tight, deficient in ventila¬ 
tion, 92 ; Franklin, a good kind of, 92 
(note). 
Straw, iiso of, for protecting hives, 387. 
Stupefaction of bees, by smoke, chloro¬ 
form. and other, 210. 
Sturtovunt. E. T., on wintering bees, 
310. 
Suffocation of boos, symptoms, 90. 
Sugar, its elements, 70. 
Sugar-candy, see Candy. 
Sugar-water, use of to pacify boos, 26; 
164, 1G8-170; how to apply it, 170; 
used in mingling stocks, 203. 
Sulphur, use of, in killing eggs and 
worms of bee-moth, 213. 
Sun, heat of, Important to bees in Spring, 
101, 368. 
Superstitious about boos, 79. 
Surplus honey, sue Iloney, surplus. 
Swallow, address of Grecian poet to a 
bee-eating, 253. 
Swammerdam, his drawing of quoon's 
ovaries described, 86; groat merits of, 
as an observer, 65 (note); his drawing 
of queen’s ovaries, PI. XVIII.; how 
ho learned the Internal economy of 
tho hive, and his rovoronco in study¬ 
ing the works of Nature, 164 (note); 
spoke of two species of bee-moth, 228. 
Bwarms, now, often construct drone- 
comb to store honey, 51; number of 
bees in a good one, 64; llrst ones led 
by old queens, 111; no sure indica¬ 
tions at first, 111; will settle without 
ringing of hells. Ac., 113; moro in¬ 
clined to elope, if boos are neglected, 
114; bow to arrost a fugitive, 114; 
how to prevent, from deserting a new 
hive, 115; indications of intended de¬ 
sertion, 116; clustering of, before de¬ 
parture, of special benefit to nmn, 116; 
send out scouts, 117; sometimes build 
comb of fence-rails, Ac., 118; how 
parent hive is repopulated, after de¬ 
parture of, 119; composed of young 
and old bees, 119; none of the bees of 
now, return to parent hive, 120; signs 
and time of second, 122; sometimes 
settle in sevoral clusters, 122; singu¬ 
lar instance of plurality of queens (in 
Mexico), 122; signs and time of third, 
123; first, sometimes swarms again, 
128; new, reluctant to enter heated 
hives, 130; often taken possession of 
deserted hives stored with comb, lmt 
seldom of empty hives, 131; trees con¬ 
venient for clustering of, 131; can bo 
made to alight on a selected spot, 
131; hiving of, should not he delayed, 
132; several, clustering together, 137 ; 
may bo separated by hiving in largo 
hive, 137; hissing sound of bees while 
swarming, causes other stocks to 
swarm, 137; how to provent thoir 
mingling, 138 ; should he placed where 
intended to stand, as soon as hived, 
138; how to proceed when hive is not 
ready to recoivo, 139; feeble after¬ 
swarms, of little value, 140,141; st long, 
tempted to evil courses, 1 11; many, 
annually lost, 143; danger of losing, 
in swarming season, 144 ; decrease of 
in hoes, after swarming, 151 (and 
note); now, have greater energy (Imn 
old, 153 ; forced, 154 ; will outer hives 
without tho queen, 169 (note); when 
forced, how to induce to adhere to 
new locations, 163 (and note); to 
avoid risk of losing, in swarming- 
time, 173; too rapid multiplication of, 
unprofitable, 176; second, usually 
valueless, unless early, and season 
good, 177; weak, may ho strength¬ 
ened by use of mov. comb lilvo, 178; 
one new, made from two old ones, 181 
(noteS); artificial, rapid increase of 
with move, comb hive, 183; dangers 
attending, in largo apiaries whore the 
hives are uniform in appearance and 
near together, 216; how to avoid tho 
danger, 217 ; Washington Irving’s ac¬ 
count of, in tho West, 236 (note); 
now, need more air than old, 281; 
precautions in moving, 281; a lato 
one, 366. 
Swarming,signs of,111 ; indisposes hoes 
to return to parent hive, 120; unsea¬ 
sonable, often caused by famine, 116; 
causes bees to mark the place of thoir 
new abode, 120; incidont in, in Mex¬ 
ico, 123; after, care needed to pre¬ 
serve young brood in parent hivo, 
124; in tropical climates, at all sea- 
