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INDEX, 
In a hire, 63; how supplied with eggs, 
63; description of, 66; when built, 
111; queens prevented from destroy¬ 
ing, 121; remains of, indicate number 
of queens hatched, 121; may be re¬ 
moved in mov. comb hives, to pre¬ 
vent alter-swarming, 124 ; how to de¬ 
cide whether inmate of has been 
hatched or killed, 121; how to cut 
out of combs, 166; sign that the 
queens in, are nearly mature, 167; 
how to make bees rear, in convenient 
places on the comb, 191; to be given 
to colonies second day after removal 
of queen, 223. 
Royal jelly, see Jelly, royal 
Rye meal, see Meal. 
S. 
Sagacity of bees. 47, 48. 
Salt, fondness of bees for, 272. 
Scent, see Smell and Odor. 
Schirach, on artificial rearing of queens, 
148. 
Scouts sent out by swarms to find a new 
home, 117 ; necessity of, 118. 
Scraper for cleansing the bottom-board 
of mov. comb hive, 347. 
Scudamore, Dr., on many swarms clus¬ 
tering together, 137. 
Secret recipe for keeping stocks strong, 
6hnm vendor of, 238. 
Scholtz, Mr., on wintering bees in 
clamps, 348-360. 
Sex of bees, determined by queen, 38. 
Shakspeare’s description of the Hive,268. 
Shrimplin, experiment of, showing im¬ 
pregnation to take place in the air, 
127. 
Sick persons, the care of, beneficial to 
man, 313. 
Siehold, Professor, extracts from his 
Parthenogenesis, 126 (note); his dis¬ 
section of spermatheca, 127 (note); 
found spermatozoa in worker, but not 
in drone eggs, 41 ; on bee life, 144 
(note); recommends movable frames, 
321 (note 2). 
Sight of bees, acute, for distant objects, 
117. 
Signs of swarming, 111; of queenless 
colonies, 219,224; of preseuce of moths 
in hive, 242. 
Size of hives, 329-332. 
Smell, of hives, in gathering season, 177 
(note); strange bees distinguished by, 
208; the same, to be given in uniting 
colonies, 203; sense of, in bees, acute, 
313; of their own poison, irritates 
bees, 314. 
Smoke, importance of, in subduing 
bees, 27,154 ; its use in forced swarm¬ 
ing, 165,168, 169; its use of, vory an¬ 
cient, 210; drives clustered bees in¬ 
side of hive, 281; useful in removing 
surplus honey, 289. 
Smothering bees, cautions for prevent¬ 
ing, 281. 
Snails, sometimes covered by bees with 
propolis, 78. 
Snow, bees perish on, when carrying 
out their dead, 98; sometimes fatal to 
bees, 338 (note 1); often harmless to 
bees, 361 (note 1). 
Solidago, see Golden Rod. 
Sontag, F., on meal as a substitute for 
potion, 84. 
Spare honey, see Honey, surplus. 
Spermatheca, of the queen-bee, wood- 
cut and description of, 35; PI. XVIII., 
Fig. 55; dissection of, 34, 126 (note), 
213 (note). 
Spermatozoa, found in spermatheca of 
queen-bee, 34,126 (note). 
Sphinx Atropos, see Moth, Death-head. 
Spinola, described the Italian bee, 318 
(note). 
Spring, importance of sun-hent in, to 
hives, 101; feeble stocks in, unprofit¬ 
able, 177 ; examination of bees, in, im¬ 
portant, 221; colonies should be fed, 
in, 267, 268. 
Sprinkling bees, should not be done to 
excess, 170; cools their robbing fren¬ 
zy, 203. 
Starving of bees, often happens when 
there is honey in the hive, 336, 342. 
Sting, Revan’s description of, 66; PI. 
XVII., Fig. 53; microscopic appear¬ 
ance of, 57 ; loss of, fatal to bees, 57 ; 
loss of, in stinging, a benefit to man, 
68; of queen, 65; wood-cut of queen’s, 
PI. XVIII. 
Sting, poison of, dangerous to some, 
813; remedies for, 314-317; smell ot 
poison of, irritating to bees, 314; in¬ 
stant extraction of important, 314; 
rubbing the wound made by, should 
be avoided, 314; Mr.'Wagner's rem¬ 
edy for, 315; different remedies an¬ 
swer for different persons, 315; hu¬ 
man system may bo inured to, 316 
(note); amusing remedy for, 310 
(note). 
Stinging, bees, when gorged, disinclined 
to, 25, 169, 3«8; little risk of, unless 
bees are irritated, 28, 168, 170; risk 
of, diminished by use of mov. comb 
hive, 209; diseased bees inclined to, 
310; risk of, not increased by prox¬ 
imity to the hive, 211 (note); not to 
be feared from a bee away from its 
hive, 312; effect of, sometimes dan¬ 
gerous, 312; Italian bee less inclined 
to, than common bee, 322, 324. 
Stocks, of bees (see also colonies of 
bees), enfeebled by “ in-and-in breed¬ 
ing,” 54; strong, will rapidly fill empty 
comb, 71; often lose young queens 
after swarming, 141; fowor in this 
