INDEX, 
405 
hivo, 125; never molested by drones 
in hive, 127 (note); begins laying two 
days after impregnation, 128; lays 
mostly worker-eggs the first year, 
128; never stings, except in combat 
with other queens, 136, 201; alacrity 
of, in entering hive for new swarm, 
136; young, often lost after swarm¬ 
ing, 141 ; her loss easily remedied by 
mov. comb hive, 141; unfertile, diffi¬ 
cult to remove in common hives, 141; 
when immature, bees do not build 
worker-comb, 149; seldom enters side 
apartments, 152; signs indicating her 
presence or absence in forced swarms, 
158; supply of sealed, for forced 
swarming, how to secure, 166; how 
to cut sealed ones from comb, 166; 
fertile, deprived of wings, to prevent 
swarming, 173; may be confined to 
prevent swarming, 171; unfertile, 
should not be confined, 175; fertile, 
easily supplied to destitute mother- 
stocks, 182; young, in after-swarms, 
lay few drone-eggs, 184 (note); to 
raise, for artificial swarming, 188; 
when to bo given to newly-forced 
swarms, 189; to induce bees to raise, 
on what part of the comb you please, 
191; her value, 192 (note) ; can she be 
developed from any worker-larva*? 
192 (note 2); made to supply several 
stocks with eggs, 193; will lay eggs 
while under inspection, 196 (note); 
caution needed in giving, to strange 
stocks, 200; stranger, how to induce 
stocks to receive, 201 ; protected 
by queen-cage, 201; care to be used 
in catching, 202; never stings, but 
sometimes bites, 202, 204 ; may be 
lost if allowed to fly, 202; her great 
appetite, 202; her life indispensable 
to the safety of the colony, 204 ; loss 
of, see “Loss of Queen young, dan¬ 
gers besetting, 213; should be given 
to queenless stocks in Spring, 221 ; 
when unimpregnated, colony should 
be watched, 222 ; when unimpreg¬ 
nated, hides, 222; wings of, may bo 
clipped for artificial swarming, 222; 
how to mark the age of, 223; fertility 
of, diminished by hunger and cold, 
223 (note 1); should be removed in 
their third year, and new one given, 
223; regular and systematic, best, 
223 (note 2); odor of, 226; removal 
of, a remedy for foul-brood, 258; sur¬ 
plus, reared by Dzierzon, in suspected 
hives, 260 ; deserted by her subjects 
when they have been conquered by 
stronger stocks, 263 (and note ); should 
bo removed before smothering the 
bees, when stocks are broken up for 
their honey, 306 (note) ; Italian, how 
to propagate, 326; after being chilled, 
lay only drono-eggs, 327. 
Queen-bees, why, when two fight, both 
are not killed, 205; combat of, as wit¬ 
nessed in one of uuthor’s observing 
hives, 205. 
Queen-cage, use and construction of, 
201, 325. 
Queen cells, see Royal cells. 
Queenless stocks, signs of, 219, 245; to 
be supplied with queens, 221; in Oc¬ 
tober, should be united with other 
stocks, 223; a sure prey to the moth, 
if not protected in time, 224 (and note). 
Quinby, M., author of a very valuable 
work on bee-keeping, 249 (note); on 
the ravages of the larvse of bee-moth, 
249 (note); on shape of mov. comb 
hives, 330 (note 3); on wintering bees, 
348; on equalizing colonies when re¬ 
moved from Winter repository, 361 
(note 2); on making bees work in a 
double tier of surplus honey-boxes, 
365 (note). 
R. 
Radlkofer, Doctor, on over-stocking, 
300; on the Italian bee, 325. 
Rapping on hives, its effect on bees, 27, 
155, 204. 
Raspberry, one of the best bee-plants, 
and very abundant in hill towns of 
New England, 296. 
Reaumur, his account of a snail covered 
with propolis, by bees, 78; his error 
as to the treatment of strange queens 
by bees, 201; thought there were two 
species of bee-moth, 228. 
Reid, Dr., on the shape of honey-cells, 75. 
Religion, revealed, appeal to those who 
reject, 52. 
Remedies for bee-stings, 314-317. 
Riem, the first to notice fertile workers, 
55. 
Ringing bells, in swarming time, use¬ 
less, 113. 
Requisites of a complete hive, 95-108. 
Robbers, highway, bees sometimes act 
the part of, 262. 
Robbing, by bees, frequent, when for¬ 
age is scarce, and caution against, 
199, 261, 263; how prevented, 261- 
266; committed chiefly on feeble or 
queonless colonies, 261; signs indicat¬ 
ing a bee engaged in, 261,265 ; begets a 
disrelish for honest pursuits, 262, 264 
(and note); movable entrance blocks 
protect bees against, 264; infatuation 
produced by, on bees, 264; caution 
needed in checking, when a hive is 
vigorously attacked, 265; how to stop 
bees engaged in, 265; secret, its rem¬ 
edy, 266. 
Royal colls, described, 62; wood-cuts of, 
Plates XIII., XIV., and XV.; atten¬ 
tion paid to, by workers, 62; why 
they open downwards, 63; number o£ 
