INDEX. 
40 ? 
2); attempt of, to import Italian beo, 
3*28 (note); translation of Scboltz on 
wintering bees, 318-300. 
War, how waged by different colonies, 
263. 
Wasps, fecundation of, 35; injure fruit, 
86 ; should be destroyed in Spring, 
87 ; torpid in Winter, 109. 
Water, necessary to be supplied for 
bees confined, 189 (and note); the re¬ 
fusal of, in Spring, by bees, indicative 
of a queenless colony, 219 (and note); 
cold, useful iu checking robbery, 265; 
indispensable to bees when building 
comb, or rearing brood, 271, 342-346; 
bees need, in cold weather, 342-340; 
advantages of giving, to bees in cold 
Springs, 343. 
Wax, scales of, wood-cuts, PI. XIII., 
Figs. 37 and 38; secreted from honey, 
G9, 275; pouches for, 69; wood-cut of, 
PI. XIII., Fig. 38; Huber’s experi¬ 
ments on secretion of, 69; pollen may 
aid its secretion, 70; its elements, 71; 
large quantity of honey consumed in 
secretion of, 71; shavings of, used by 
bees, to build new comb, 72; a ball 
conductor of heat, 73; pollen useful 
in its secretion, 82, 197; origin of, dis¬ 
covered by Ilornbostel, 204 (note); 
the food of the larva? of the beo-moth, 
233, 247 ; how to render, from comb, 
288. 
Weather, unpleasant, delays of pre¬ 
vents swarming, 112. 
West India honey, as bee-food, 256 
(note), 270. 
Wetherell, I)r. C. BI., his analysis of 
royal jelly, 64. 
Wheaton, Levi, on upward ventilation, 
276 (note 1); on wintering bees, 346 
(note 1). 
White clover, see Clover, white. 
Weigel, Rev. Mr., first recommended 
candy as bee-feed, 272. 
Wheeler, George, on ancient bar-hives, 
210 (note). 
Willow, varieties of, abound iu honey 
and pollen, 292. 
Wildman, Thomas, feats of, in handling 
bees, 308; states the fact that fear 
disposes colonies to unite, 203 (note); 
his approach to modern modes of 
taming bees, 204 (note); on the 
queen’s odor, 226. 
Winds, bees should be protected against, 
103, 180, 279. 
Wings of qneonR, may be made to mark 
their ago, 223. 
Winter, wasps and hornets, but not 
bees, torpid in, 109, 335; quantity of 
honey needed by a stock in, 274 ; 
bees eat less in, when kept quiet, 335, 
365, 358; bees should bo protected 
from winds of, 337 ; bees in, if out of 
doors, should be allowed to fly, 337, 
how to ventilate hives in, 338; snow 
in, when injurious to bees, 338 (note 
1); bees need water in. 342-346; when 
honey is candied in. bees need water, 
342-344; disturbing bees in, injurious, 
347, 355; fewer bees die in, when 
hives are in clamps, than when in 
other special depositories, 358; tem¬ 
porary removal of colonics in, to a 
warm room, 341, 362. 
Wintering bees, 335-361 ; objections to, 
in the open air, 335; how to get honey 
for, in centre of hive, 336; bee pas¬ 
sages in comb for, 337 (and note 1), 
339 (and note); in a dry vault or cel¬ 
lar, 348; in special repositories, 348- 
360; further experiments in, needed, 
360; requires caution in removing 
them from winter quarters, 361. 
Wives, a friendly word to, 220. 
Wood-cuts, explanation of, 11, 371. 
Women, Americuu, suffer from bnd ven¬ 
tilation, 92. 
Worker-comb, size of the cells of, 74; 
all good, can be used in mov. comb 
hive, 130; not built uuless bees have 
a mature queen, 149. 
Worker-bees, are females, with unde¬ 
veloped ovaries, 29; when fertile, 
their progeny always drones, 36; 
Huber’s theory concerning fertile, 
37, 55; sometimes exalted to bo 
queens, 37; one raised from a drono 
egg, hy Dr. DdnholT, 41; incapable of 
impregnation. 42; wood-cuts of, PI. 
XII., Figs. 35, 36; number of, in 
swarm, 54; author’s opinion respect¬ 
ing fertile, 55; fertile prefer to lay in 
drone cells, 55; honey-bag, 56; repre¬ 
sentation of, Pi. XVII., Fig. 54, A.; use 
of proboscis of, 56; wood-cut of probos¬ 
cis of, PI. XVI., Fig. 51; pollen-basket, 
56; sting, 56; wood-cut of, PI. XVII., 
Fig. 53; loss of sting, fatal, 57 ; do all 
the work oft he hive, 58; their age, 58; 
lesson of industry from, 59; attention 
to royal cells, 62; wood-cut of abdo¬ 
men of, PI. XVI., Fig. 52; two kinds 
of, described by Huber, 192 (note 2); 
differently occupied in different peri¬ 
ods of life, 194 ; impulse of, to gather 
honey, undeveloped in early life, 195. 
Worms, see Bee-nioth, larva? of. 
Wormwood, use of. for driving away 
robbing bees, 265 (note). 
Wurtemberg, number of its colouies of 
beos, 304. 
Z. 
Zollickoffer, II. M., his account of bees 
building combs on a troe, 118. 
