INDEX, 
407 
country than they were years ago, 
145; often refuse to swarm, 139, 145, 
147; new, work better than old, 153; 
if weak in Spring, usually unprofit¬ 
able, and sometimes require to be fed, 
177; the less disturbed, the better for 
surplus honey, 18(>; best mode for 
rapid increase of. 184; doubling, tre¬ 
bling, &c., 185; subject to great loss 
of bees in storms, 180; rapid increase 
of, hopeless in vicinity of sugar- 
houses, &c., 199; hostility of, to 
strange queens, 2U0; when united, 
the bees should be gorged with honey, 
2U1; will adhere to the hive when the 
queen is lost, if supplied with brood- 
comb, 218; queeniess, should be 
brokeu up, if not supplied with a 
queen or brood-comb, 218; Spring 
care of, 221; healthy, destroy the 
drones when forage is scarce, 224; 
weak, with uncovered comb, infested 
by moths, 242; suffering from hunger, 
are an easy prey to the moth, 246 
(and note). 
Stocks, union of, see Union of colonies. 
Stomach of worker, wood-cut of, PI. 
XVII., Fig. 54. 
Stoves, air-tight, deficient in ventila¬ 
tion, 92; Franklin, a good kind of, 92 
(note). 
Straw, use of, for protecting hives, 337. 
Stupefaction of bees, by smoko, chloro¬ 
form, and ether, 210. 
Sturtevant, E. T., on wintering bees, 
840. 
Suffocation of bees, symptoms, 00. 
Sugar, its elements, 70. 
Sugar-candy, see Candy. 
Sugar-water, use of to pacify boos, 26; 
154, 168-170; how to apply it, 170; 
used in mingling stocks, 203. 
Sulphur, use of, in killing eggs and 
worms of bee-moth, 243. 
Sun, heat of, importun t to bees in Spring, 
101, 368. 
Superstitions about bees, 79. 
Surplus honey, see Iloney, surplus. 
Swallow, address of Grecian poet to a 
bee-eating, 253. 
Swammerdam, his drawing of queen’s 
ovaries described, 35; great merits of, 
as an observer, 65 (note); his drawing 
of queen’s ovaries, PI. XVIII.; how 
he learned the internal economy of 
the hive, and his reverence in study¬ 
ing the works of Nature, 164 (note); 
spoke of two species of bee-moth, 228. 
Swarms, new, often construct drone- 
comb to store lionoy, 51; number of 
bees in a good one, 64; first ones led 
by old queens, 111; no sure indica¬ 
tions at first, 111; will settle without 
ringing of bells, &c., 113; more in¬ 
clined to olopo, if bees aro neglected, 
114; how to arrest a fugitive, 114; 
how to prevent, from deserting a new 
hive, 115; indications of intonded de- 
sortion, 115; clustering of, before de¬ 
parture, of special benefit to man, 1 16; 
send out scouts, 117 ; sometimes build 
comb of fence-rails, &c., 118; bow 
parent hive is repopulated, after de¬ 
parture of, 119; composed of young 
and old bees, 119; none of the bees of 
new, return to parent hive, 120; signs 
and time of second, 122; sometimes 
settle in several clusters, 122; singu¬ 
lar instance of plurality of queens (in 
Mexico), 122; signs ami time of third, 
123; first, sometimes swarms again, 
128; new, reluctant to enter heated 
hives, 130; often taken possession of 
deserted hives stored with comb, but 
8 el don i of empty hives, 131; trees con¬ 
venient for clustering of, 131 : can be 
mado to alight on a selected spot, 
131 ; hiving of, should not be delayed, 
132; several, clustering together, 137 ; 
may be separated by hiving in large 
hive, 137 ; hissing sound of bees while 
swarming, causes other stocks to 
swarm, 137 ; how to prevent their 
mingling, 138 ; should be placed where 
intended to stand, as soon as hived, 
138; how to proceed when hivo is not 
ready to receive, 139; feeble after- 
swarms, of little value, 140,141; strong, 
tempted to evil courses, 141; many, 
annually lost, 143; danger of losing, 
in swarming season, 144 ; decrease of 
in bees, after swarming, 151 (ami 
note); new, have greater energy than 
old, 153; forced, 154; will enter hives 
without the queen, 159 (note); when 
forced, how to induce to adhere to 
new locations, 163 (and note); to 
avoid risk of losing, in swanning- 
time, 173; too rapid multiplication of, 
unprofitable, 176; Rccond, usually 
valueless, unless early, and season 
good, 177; weak, may bo strength¬ 
ened by use of mov. comb hive, 17S ; 
one new, made from two old ones, 181 
(note 3); artificial, rapid increase of 
with move, comb hive, 183; dangers 
attending, in large apiaries where the 
hives are uniform in appearance and 
near together, 216; how to avoid the 
danger, 217 ; Washington Irving’s ac¬ 
count of, in the West, 236 (note) ; 
new, need more air than old, 2S1; 
precautions in moving, 281; a late 
one, 366. 
Swarming, signs of, 111; indisposes bees 
to return to parent hive, 120; unsea¬ 
sonable, often caused by famine, 116 ; 
causes bees to mark the place of their 
new abode, 120; incident in, in Mex¬ 
ico, 123; aftor, caro needed to pro¬ 
servo young brood in parent hive, 
124; in tropical climates, at all 6ea- 
