INDEX, 
397 
Composition for corners of hives, to 
secure them from moths, 78. 
Confectioners, how they may prevent 
annoyance from bees, 277. 
Control of comb, essential to a true sys¬ 
tem of bee culture, 208. 
Corsica, ancient, yield of honey of, 304. 
D. 
Dampness, injurious to bees, 90, 95, 338- 
342, 345, 348 *, produces dysentery. 256. 
Dandelion, furnishes honey and pollen, 
292. 
Dangers of too rapidly multiplying 
stocks, 176-178; of using hives of 
uniform size, shape, and color, 214. 
Daylight, needed for operations on 
bees, 167. 
Denmark, its honey produce, 304. 
Desertion of hives by swarms, indica¬ 
tions and prevention of, 115. 
Diseases of bees, 255-260. 
Dishonesty, as poor policy in bees as in 
men, 262 . 
Dissection of queen bees, 34, 213 (note). 
Disturbing bees in cold weather, injuri¬ 
ous, 256, 335, 347, 355. 
Dividing hives, worthless for artificial 
swarming, 149, 150. 
Ddnhoff, Dr., on artificial impregnation 
of a drone-egg, 41; on thickness of 
sides of cells, 71 (note); his mode of 
forced swarming, 13; his experiment 
indicating a division of labor among 
bees according to age, 194; on lood 
of bee-moth larva*, 233 (note); on 
eggs of bee-moth, 234 (note 2). 
Double stocks, produce a large yield of 
honey, 135. 
Doubling stocks yearly, 185. 
Draining combs of honey, 288. 
Drawings, explanation of, for making 
mov. comb hive, 371. 
Drone-comb, wood-cut of, 1*1. XV., Fig. 
48; the cause of excess of, 51 ; excess 
of, should ho removed from breeding 
apartments, 61, 225; if new, 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 ho made of, 214 (note), 327. 
Drones, or male bees, produced by re¬ 
tarded impregnation of queens, 36; 
always by unfecundated eggs, 37; 
often by unfecundated queens, 37, 
127 (note); their development from 
egg to insect, 46; description and 
wood-cuts of, 49; 1*1. XII., Figs. 33. 34 
(natural and magnified size); office 
of, to impregnate young queens, 49 ; 
time of their appearance, 50; often 
very numerous, 50; how to prevent 
excessive multiplication of, 61; why 
destroyed by workers, 52,224 ; wisdom 
displayed in providing so many, 53; 
length of life, 58; perish in impreg¬ 
nation of queen, 125,126 (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 ancient bee-keepers, 61, 
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 bad ventilation, 90; 
from dampness ami 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 his apiary, 21; discov¬ 
ered that unfecundated eggs produce 
males, 37 ; thinks some brood may bo 
raised without pollen, 81; discovered 
rye meal to ho a good substitute for 
pollen, 84; supposes sound of queen’s 
wings excites drones, 127 (note); bis 
mode of forcing swarming, 186; bis 
estimnte 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, 3l)6 
(note); his experiments with the 
Italian bee, 320; thinks bees not in¬ 
jured by the opening of their hives, 
321 (note); his mode of wintering 
bees, 318. 
E. 
Eggs of bees, how fecundated, 35; fecun¬ 
dated produce females, uufecundated, 
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 oli 
