INDEX. 
401 
Italian honey-bees, 41; singular result 
of crossing with common drones, 41, 
32-1 (note 2); used to show a division 
of labor among bees, 194; account of, 
318-328; described by Aristotle and 
Virgil, 318; Mr. Wagner’s letter on, 
318; their modern introduction to 
notice, 318 ; value of, in the study of 
tlie physiology of the honey-bee, 319; 
cells of, the same size as those of the 
common bee, 320; Dzierzon’s experi¬ 
ments with, 320; frequent disturb¬ 
ances abate nothing from the industry 
of, 321 (note); general diffusion of, 
desirable, 321; superior to common 
bee, 322, 324, 325; peaceable dispo¬ 
sition of, 322; may readily be intro¬ 
duced into hives of common bees, 322; 
furnishes new means of studying the 
habits of bees, 322; the purity of, can 
be preserved, 322; character of, as 
tested by Berlepsch, 324; number of 
queens obtained in one seiison, from 
one queen, 324; remarkable fact in 
relation to hybrids, 324 (note); de¬ 
scription of, by Busch, 324; Radlkof- 
fer’s account of, 325; how to intro¬ 
duce an Italian queen to a stock of 
common bees, 325; advantages of au¬ 
thor’s non-swarmer in preserving the 
Italian bee pure, 326; howlo produce 
abundance of drones of, 327 ; precau¬ 
tion suggested when non-swarnier 
cannot he used, 327 ; queens of, safely 
moved in niov. comb hive, 327 ; intro¬ 
duction 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¬ 
cable, by natural swarming, 147; or 
by dividing hives, 149 ; rapid, cautions 
against, 175-178; rapid, incompatible 
with large yield of surplus honey, 
176; a tenfold, possible, in mov. comh 
hire, 178; sure, not rapid, to lie aimed 
at, 179; forming one new from two 
old colonies best, and how effected, 
180; rapid, requires liberal feeding. 
1st. 
Inexperienced persons should not begin 
bee-keeping on a large scale, 282. 
Indian name for honey-bee, 236. 
Industry taught by the bee, 59. 
Intemperate men compared to infatu¬ 
ated boes, 278. 
Intercommunication of bees in hives, 
important, 103, 330, 337 (and note), 
339 (and note). 
Trying, Washington, his account of the 
ubundanco of bees at the West, 236 
(note). 
J. 
Jansha, on impregnation of queen, 36. 
Japanese, veneration for birds, 253 
(note). 
Jarring, disliked by bees, 96, 170, 309. 
Jelly, royal, the food of immature 
queen, 63 ; a secretion of the bees, 64; 
analysis of, 64 ; effect of, in developing 
larvae, 64, 191 ; pollen necessary fur 
its production, 197. 
Johnson, M. T., the first American ob¬ 
server of the fact that queenless 
stocks are soon destroyed by the 
moth, 244 (note). 
K. 
Kaden, Mr., on over-stocking, 301. 
Killing bees for honey, an invention of 
the dark ages, 239 (note); more hu¬ 
mane than to starve them, 238; not 
necessary, 239. 
Kindness of bees at home, a lesson for 
man, 312. 
King-bird, eats be«*8, 252. 
Kirby and Spence on ants and aphides, 
285. 
Kirtland, Dr. J. P., bis letter on the in¬ 
troduction of the bee-moth, 240; on 
. benefits of transferring stocks into 
mov. comb hive, 284. 
Knight on honey-dews, 286. 
Kleine, Rev. Mr., on making bees rear 
queens in selected cells, 191; his 
method of preventing robberies 
among bees, 265 (note); on feeding 
bees, 273; on over-stocking, 301; on 
accustoming the human system to the 
poison of bees, 316 (note). 
L. 
Larva> of honey-bee, development of, 44 
(PI. XIII., Figs. 40,41, 42); royal, 64; 
perish without ventilation, 89; of bee- 
moth, see bee-moth, Larvce of; of 
honey-bee, disease of, 259. 
Leidy, l)r. Joseph, his dissection of fer¬ 
tile and drone-laying queens, 34, 39, 
213 (note); of a queen just impreg¬ 
nated, 126 (note). 
Light, bees will work when exposed to, 
16, 205, 332; its sudden admission, 
effect of, on bees, 168, 169; of day, 
needed for operations about the hive, 
167. 
Ligurian, or Italian bee, 318 (note). 
Lindon, or bass-wood tree, yields much 
honey, 293 (and note). 
Llriodendron, yields much honey, 292. 
Locust, valuable for bees, 293. 
