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INDEX, 
done more harm than good, 237, 
241. 
Peach-tree yields honey, 292. 
Pear-tree yields honey, 292. 
Peppermint, use of in uniting colonies, 
203. 
Perfection, folly of claiming for hives, 
106. 
Perfumes, disagreeable to bees, 313 
(note). 
Perseverance of bees, worthy of imita¬ 
tion by man, 197. 
Persons attacked by bees, directions for, 
312, 314. 
Peters, Randolph, interesting experi¬ 
ment of, 219 (note). 
Pillage of hives, secret, cause and rem¬ 
edy of, 266. 
Piping of queens, an indication of after- 
swarming, 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 be 
inured to, 316 (note). 
Poisonous honey, and how to remove its 
injurious qualities, 287. 
Pollen, or bee-bread, 80-87; 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 Huber’s experiments, 80; 
author’s, to the same effect, 81 ; Gun- 
delach's opinion of, 81; useful in se¬ 
cretion of wax, 82; bees preTer 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 moal 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). 
Pollen-basket, on log of bee, 56. 
Poppy, white, a remedy for bee-stings, 
315. 
Posel, discovery of, on use of sperma- 
thecu, 36 (note). 
Proboscis of a worker. 56; wood-cuts of, 
Plates XIII., XVI., Figs. 63, 51. 
Profits of bee-keeping, Dziorzon's expe¬ 
rience in, 21 ; Sydserff’s calculation 
of, 146 (note); dependent on strong 
stocks, 176; difficulty of estimating, 
306 (note), safe estimate of, 306. 
Propolis, 76-80; whonco obtained, 76; 
curious sources of, in Mexico, 77 ; its 
uses, 77; bee-moth lays her eggs in, 
78; curious anecdotes, illustrating its 
uses, 78. 
Prussia, bee-keeping encouraged by 
government of, 320 (nolo). 
Pupa, or boo-nymph, 45; heat required 
for its development, 46. 
Punk, smoke of, subdues bees, 27, 154. 
Q. 
Quoen-bee, wood-cut of (natural and 
magnified size), PI. XII., Figs. 31, 32; 
wood-cut of ovaries and spermatheca 
of, 35, PI. XVIII.; description of, 30; 
tho mother of the whole colony, 30; 
affectionate treatment of, by the other 
bees, 31; effect of her loss on the 
colony, 31; her fertility, 32; how her 
eggs are fecundated, 34-41; Huber 
discovers impregnation of, to take 
place out of hive, 34; dissection of, by 
Dr. Leidy, 34, 126 (note), 213 (note); 
effect of retarded impregnation ou, 
36; she determines the sex of the egg, 
38; Dr. Leidy’s dissection of a droue- 
luying, 38, 126 (note), 213 (note); at¬ 
tempt 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 
tho 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 of, de¬ 
creases with age, 49, 223; longevity 
of, 49, 58; when superannuated, lays 
only drone-eggs, 49; why impreg¬ 
nated in tho air, 53 ; office of, no sine¬ 
cure, 58; Italian, use of, to show how 
long workers live, 59; manner of rear¬ 
ing, 62; larva) of, effects o\ royal jelly 
on, 63; process of rearing in special 
emergency, 66; development of, an 
argument against infidelity, 68; old, 
loads 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 hivo, 115; influence of, in causing 
hoes to cluster, 117 ; prevented by bees 
from killing inmates of royal cells, 
121; piping of, 121; several sometimes 
accompany after-swarms,122; emerges 
from her cell mature, 122; young more 
active ou wing than old, 123; young 
often reluctant to leave hive, 123; 
young, does not leave for impregna¬ 
tion till established as solo head, 51, 
125; her precautions to regain he* 
