How to Keep Bees/Index

by Anna Botsford Comstock

INDEX

• ABC of Bee Culture, 207.
• Abdomen, 187.
• After-swarms led by virgin queen, 81.
• prevention of, 81.
• reason of and remedy for, 79, 81.
• Alder, 154.
• Alfalfa, 201.
• Alighting board, 15.
• Alimentary canal, 187, 191, Plates XXV., XXVI.
• Alley's queen and drone trap, 12.
• Alsike, 200.
• Anatomy, external, 181, Plate XXV.
• internal, 187, Plate XXVI.
• Antenna cleaner, 186, Plate VIL
• Antennas, 183, Plate VII.
• Ants, 27.
• Apiaries, floating, 209.
• out, 209.
• Apiary, high fence for, in city, 23.
• in village garden, 22.
• location and arrangement of, 20.
• mowing the, 23.
• old-fashioned, Plate XXVII.
• old orchard good place for, 20.
• on city house tops, 22.
• sheep in, 23.
• windbreak for, 22.
• Apparatus for extracting, Plate XVIII.
• Apple, 196.
• Apple blossoms, Plate XVII.
• Apricot, 196.
• Aristotle, 172, 207.
• Artificial pasturage, 199.

Bacillus alvei, 176.

• Balling of queen, 32, 158.
• Basswood, 198.
• blossoms, frontispiece.
• Bee, anatomy of, 181.
• books, 206.
• brush, Plate III.
• Brush, Dixie, 19.
• brush, use of, 101.
• cellars, for wintering, the Bingham, 151.
• gloves, 11, 17.
• glue, its source, 60, 61.
• glue made from varnish and cement, 61.
• glue, various uses of, 62.
• house-keepers, 34.
• how she gathers pollen, 59.
• how she collects propolis, 62.
• ingratitude, 44.
• journals, 206.
• moth, 172.
• moth, development of, 173.
• moth, how to detect, 173.
• moth, maxims, 176.
• moth, remedy for, 174.
• tent, 102, 168.
• tree, 214.
• veil, II, 16.
• worker, 59.
• worker, brains of, 40.
• worker—life and habits of, 42, 43.
• worker, sex of, 39.
• Bee-bread, 59.
• as food, 60.
• in cells, 98.
• Bee-escape, Plate III.
• Porter, 18.
• Porter, use of, 101.
• Bee-gum, 83.
• Bee-hunting, 211.
• Bee-keepers, 206.
• books written by, 9.
• number of, 207.
• Bee-keepers' supplies, catalogue of, 10.
• Bee-keeping, 206.
• a beginner's order, 11.
• as a regular business, 10.
• attractive materials of, 85.
• how to begin, 8.
• too successful, 73.
• worst way to begin, 10.
• Bees, as a recreation, 5.
• as socialists, 6.
• a study in natural science, 6.
• belong to the garden, 7.
• control population, 34.
• diseases of, 176.
• enemies and diseases of, 172.
• feeding of, 136.
• German or black, 12, 47.
• how they collect propolis, 60, 61.
• how they secrete wax, 52.
• how to handle them, 91.
• how to keep from keeping too many, 73.
• how to manage when swarming, 66.
• how to reconcile swarm to new hive, 70.
• how to unite colonies, 82.
• how to winter, 145.
• how to work with, 92.
• hybrids, 48.
• Italian, 12, 13.
• Italian and black bees compared, 48.
• Italian, Mr. Root's test for, 48.
• keep for sake of honey, 4.
• keep for sake of money, 4.
• legends and literature of, 3.
• races of, 12.
• races of domestic, 47.
• reasons why one should keep, 3.
• relations to plants, 194.
• robbing, 164.
• secreting wax, Plate X.
• sense of smell, 92.
• swarming of, 64.
• telling the, 61.
• watering, 143.
• when they swarm, 65.
• why they swarm, 64.
• wild, 47.
• Beeswax, adulterated, 126, 134.
• clarified by vinegar, 128.
• how to make it, 126.
• its value, 126.
• maxims for making, 135.
• press, 132.
• primitive method of rendering, 127.
• refining of, 134.
• rendered in wash boiler, 129.
• Beeswax-extractors, 130.
• Black brood, 179.
• Blue thistle, 204.
• Boardman wax extractor, 130, 131.
• Body wall, 181, Plate XXV.
• Bonnet, 207.
• Borage, 204.
• Bottom board, 83.
• Box elder in blossom, Plate XXX.
• Box hives, 83, 208.
• Brain, 188, Plate XXV.
• Brimstoning bees, 208.
• Brood, black, 179.
• foul, 176.
• foundation, 17.
• how to examine, 97.
• pickled, 179.
• Brood chamber, 83.
• how to examine, 95.
• size of, 14.
• Brood frame, Langstroth, how much honey it will hold, 146.
• Brood frames, examining of, Plate XIII.
• how to lift out, 96.
• Brushing or shaking-out method to control swarming, 77,
• Buckwheat, 201.
• Buckwheat in blossom, Plate XXIX.
• Cabbage palmetto, 199.
• Cages, queen, 160, 161.
• Candy for feeding bees, how to make, 141.
• Good, 141, 161.
• Cans for shipping extracted honey in bulk, 123.
• Carniolan bees, 47.
• Carton for comb-honey, 106, 113.
• Catnip, 204.
• Cell of queen, 29.
• Cellars for wintering bees, 150.
• Cerasin, wax adulterant, 134.
• Chaff hives, 11, 14.
• Chaff hives for wintering, 148, Plate XXII.
• Chyle food, 36.
• how regurgitated, 58.
• City apiary, 22.
• Cleome, 204.
• Clipping wings of queen, 75.
• Clover, 200.
• Cogshall, 209.
• Colonies, how to unite, 82.
• Colony, queenless, 29.
• queenless, Mr. Root's method of testing, 159, 160.
• Comb building, Plate IX.
• built by many workers, 56.
• drone, 37.
• cell caps, construction of, 56.
• foundation for brood chamber, 85.
• how to tell honey from brood in capped cells, 97.
• made without pollen, 50.
• making, described by A. I. Root, 53.
• making, Prof. V. L. Kellogg's observation of, 53.
• mathematics of, 54.
• placing in extractor, Plate XIX.
• shape of, not fortuitous, 54.
• strength of, 56.
• uncapping of, Plate XIX.
• Comb-honey and large hives, 77.
• bee moth in, 174, 175.
• candied, 115.
• compared with extracted honey, 106, 124.
• conditions for production of, 107.
• grading of, 112.
• how to keep, 116.
• how to make, 106.
• in 8-frame hive, 14.
• marketing of, 114.
• maxims for producers of, 116.
• shipping of, 113.
• storing of, 115.
• Combs for extracting, Plate XVIII.
• Cook, Prof. A. J., method of uniting colonies, 82, 207.
• observation on bee moth, 172.
• Coreopsis, 204.
• Corneil smoker, 11, 16.
• how to use, 93.
• Coxa, 185.
• Crabapple blossoms, Plate XXVIII.
• Crimson clover, 200.
• Cuticle, 182, Plate XXV.
• Cyprians, 47, 210.

 

• Daisy foundation fastener, 11, 17.
• Dandelion, 205.
• De Geer, 207.
• Details concerning honey, 106.
• Development of worker, 40.
• Diarrhoea, prevention of, 180.
• Diseases of bees, 176.
• Division board, what it is, 13.
• Division board feeder, Plate XII.
• Dixie bee brush, 12.
• Doolittle division board feeder, 12.
• wax-extractor, 130, 131.
• Drone, the, 34, Plate V.
• appearance of, 35.
• cell of, 37, Plate VIII.
• cells, how capped, 97.
• cells, size of, 56.
• comb, 37.
• death of, 35.
• eggs in worker cells, 37,
• flight of, 36.
• food of, 36.
• from unfertilised egg, 36.
• head of, Plate VI.
• leg of, Plate VII,
• life-history of, 36.
• killing of, 38, 39.
• maturity of, 37.
• physical characteristics of, 35, 36.
• reproductive organs of, Plate XXVI.
• trap, 19, Plate XVI.
• wedding flight of, 38.
• Drones, great number of, 38.
• males, 27.
• Dzierzon, 207, 208.

 

• Egg, 192.
• queen, 29.
• tubes, 192, Plate XXVI.
• Eggs, unfertilised, 33.
• Egyptian bees, 47.
• Enemies of bees, 172.
• Entrance to hive, how to contract, 167.
• Epilobium angustifolium 204.
• Eucalyptus, 199.
• Extracted honey and large hives, 77.
• candied, 122, Plate XXI.
• care of, 121.
• compared with comb-honey, 106, 124.
• drawing from extractor, Plate XX.
• hive for, 14.
• how to bottle or can, 122.
• how to produce it, 117.
• in glass jars, Plate XXI.
• maxims for the producers of, 124.
• packages for, 123.
• Extracting room and apparatus, Plate XIII.
• Extractor, honey, invention of, 117.
• Extractor, Solar wax, 130.
• Extractor, wax, 130.
• Eyes, compound, 183, Plate VI.
• simple, 183, Plate VI.

 

• Fabricius, 207.
• Feeder, Boardman, 138.
• Division board, 138.
• Doolittle, 19.
• pepper-box, 139.
• Feeders, Smith, Hedden, Miller, 139.
• Feeding back, 143.
• bees, 136.
• candy, 140.
• chunk honey, 140.
• for honey, 142.
• for winter, 137.
• how to do it, 138.
• how to feed inside the hive, 138.
• how to feed outside the hive, 138.
• in fall, 136.
• in spring, 136.
• maxims for, 144.
• rye flour, 142.
• syrup in combs, 140.
• what to feed, 137.
• Females of social insects, 27.
• Fence, Plate III.
• between sections, 88.
• Figwort, 204.
• Fireweed, 204.
• Flowers of the garden, 203.
• Food of worker, 40.
• Foul brood, 176, 179.
• how to detect, 177.
• remedy for, 177.
• Foundation, brood, 17.
• super, 11.
• Foundation Comb, 126, Plate XII.
• for brood chamber, 85.
• for sections, how to cut, 89.
• how to place in frame, 85, 86.
• size of, 86.
• Foundation-fastener, Daisy, 17.
• Parker, 18.
• super, 17.
• for extracted honey, 119.
• foundation for, 84.
• Frames, Hoffman brood, 86.
• Hoffman self-spacing, 84.
• Langstroth movable, 84.
• self-spacing, Plate XII.
• spacing of, 84.
• Fruit, not punctured by bees, 196.
• Fruit trees, 196, 197.

 

• Gall-berry, 204.
• Galleria mellonella, 172.
• Garden flowers, 203.
• German bees compared with Italians, 48.
• German steam wax press, 133.
• Gill-over-the-ground, 204.
• Glands, 189.
• Glands of honey bee, Plate XXV.
• Goldenrod, 204.
• Grapes, not punctured by bees, 197.
• Guagilla, 199.

 

• Hatch-Gemmill wax press, 133.
• Head, 183, Plate XXV.
• Heart, 188, Plate XXV.
• Hetherington super springs, 90.
• Hive, arrangement in apiary, 24.
• cover, 15, 83.
• the description of, 14.
• entrance, how to contract, 167.
• essential parts of, 83.
• history of, 83.
• how to get the cover off, 95.
• how to handle it, 83.
• how to lift out the brood frames, 96.
• how to open, 92.
• industries of, 50.
• inhabitants of, 27.
• Langstroth, 8-frame, 10-frame, 14.
• maxims for opening, 104.
• one and one-half story, Plate XV.
• the reasons why it must be opened, 94.
• telescope cover, 91.
• tenement, for wintering, 149,
• to change the location of, 25.
• Hive-stand, 15, 24.
• Hives, chaff, 14, 15.
• chaff for wintering, 148, Plate XXII.
• Dadant-Quinby, size of, 77.
• decoy, 70.
• devices for carrying into cellar, 152.
• double-walled, 21.
• double-walled, cover for, 22.
• entrance toward south, 25.
• how to group, 20, 25.
• large, for extracted honey, 77.
• large sizes limit swarming, 77,
• observation, 103.
• shade boards for, 21.
• shaded by awning, 21.
• shaded by thatched roof, 21.
• shaded by trellis, 21.
• well shaded, Plate IV.
• where to put them, 20.
• Hiving bees, Plate XI.
• maxims for, 72.
• Holy Land bees, 47.
• Honey, the amount produced in the United States, 58.
• basswood. 198.
• buckwheat, 202.
• composition of, 57,
• flowers, 194.
• gardens, 199, 204.
• healthful food, 58.
• how produced, 57.
• how to take off in supers, 101.
• house, 25.
• not made in the true stomach of the bee, 58.
• of Hymettus, 204.
• the only sweet of the ancients, 58.
• plants, 199.
• ripened in uncapped cells, 57.
• ripening of, 120.
• room, 25.
• sage, 203.
• uncapped, 120.
• uncapping of, 120.
• unripened for extracting, 119.
• weeds, 199.
• when to extract, 119.
• white clover, 200.
• Honey-extractor, invention of, 117.
• principles of construction of, 118.
• use of, 119.
• Honey-stomach, 57, 191, Plate XXVI.
• Horsemint, 204.
• House top for apiary, 22.
• How to clip the queen's wings, 100.
• to examine frames of brood chamber, 95.
• to find the queen, 99.
• to find the queen cells, 98.
• to handle the bees, 91.
• to introduce a queen, 160, 161.
• to keep from keeping too many bees, 73.
• to make comb-honey, 106.
• to open the hive, 92.
• to produce extracted honey, 117.
• to rear queens, 156.
• to stop robbing, 167.
• to take off honey in supers, 101.
• to winter bees, 145.
• to winter bees in cellars, 150.
• Hruschka, Major Francesco de, inventor of honey-extractor, 117.
• Huber, 61, 103, 208.
• Hutchinson, W. Z., method of treating after-swarms, 81.
• Hymettus, honey of, 204.
• Hypodermis, 182, Plate XXV.

 

• Indian meal moth, 175.
• Industries of the hive, 50.
• Inhabitants of the hive, 27.
• Introducing the queen, 157,
• by nucleus method, 162.
• Interrelation of bees and plants, 194.
• Intestine, 191, Plate XXVI.
• Italian bees, 47, 204.
• Italian worker, description of, 47.

 

• Jars for extracted honey, 123.

 

• Kellogg, Prof. V. L., 53, 103, 172.
• Kitchen, how bees rob the, 165.

 

• Labium, 184, Plate XXV.
• Labrum, 184, Plate XXV.
• Lamarck, 207.
• Langstroth, 207, 208.
• Latrielle, 207.
• Laying worker, 45, 79.
• Leg, 185.
• Legs of honey bee, Plate VII.
• Legumes, 200.
• Linnaeus, 207.
• Location of hive, to mark, 25.
• Locust blossoms, Plate XXXI.
• Locusts, 197.

• Males of social insects, 27.
• Malpighian tubes, 191, Plate XXVI.
• Malthusian practices of bees, 34.
• Mandibles, 184, Plate XXV.
• Manum swarm catcher, 12, 19,
• Maple, mountain, Plate XXIV.
• Maples, 154, 197.
• Marjoram, 203.
• Marketing comb honey, 114.
• Mason's cans for extracted honey, 123.
• Maxillæ; 184, Plate XXV.
• Maxims for beeswax making, 135.
• for feeding, 144.
• for hiving bees, 72.
• for introducing queens, 163,
• for opening the hive, 104.
• for prevention of bee moth, 176.
• for producers of comb honey, 116.
• for the producer of extracted honey, 124.
• for wintering, 154.
• to prevent robbing, 171.
• McEvoy, William, treatment of foul brood, 177.
• Medics, 201.
• Mellilots, 205.
• Metatarsus, 185.
• Micropyle, 192.
• Milkweed, 204.
• Miller, Dr., 102, 162.
• Mignonette, 203.
• Motherwort, 204.
• Mouth parts, 184, Plate XXV.
• Muscles, 187, Plate XXV.
• Muth bottles for extracted honey, 123.

 

• Nervous system, 188, Plate XXV.
• Nucleus, method of introducing queen, 162.
• to begin with, 13.

 

• Observation hives, 103, opposite frontispiece.
• Ocelli, 183, Plate VI.
• Œsophagus, 191, Plate XXVI.
• Out-apiaries, 209.
• Ovaries, 192, Plate XXVI.
• Oviduct, 192, Plate XXVI.
• Oxydendrum arboreum, 199.

 

• Palpi, 185, Plate XXV.
• Paraffine, wax adulterant, 134.
• Parker foundation fastener, 18.
• Partnership of bees and plants, 195.
• Peach, 196.
• Pear, 196.
• Pickled brood, 179,
• Piping of queen, 31, 32.
• Planting for honey impractical, 199
• Pliny, 207.
• Plodia interpunctella 175.
• Plum, 196.
• Plum blossoms, Plate XXIII.
• Points about beeswax, 126.
• Poison glands, 193, Plate XXVI.
• Pollen, 59.
• fed to drone, 37.
• how gathered, 59.
• in cells, 98.
• how placed in cell, 60.
• made into bee bread, 60.
• Pollen-baskets, 59, 186, Plate VII.
• Pollen-comb, Plate VII.
• Porter bee-escape, 12, 18.
• Propolis, how collected, 62.
• how to dissolve, 63.
• its source, 60, 61.
• made from varnish and cement, 61.
• various uses of, 62.
• Pussy willows, 197.

 

• Queen, Plate V.
• armour of, 30, 31.
• balling of, 32, 158, 1 59.
• cages, 160, 161, Plate XVI.
• cages, the Miller, 162.
• capacity for egg laying, 28.
• cell, 29, Plate V.
• cell, how to find, 98.
• cell, how to cut out, 98.
• clipping wings of, 75.
• development of, 28.
• duels, 30, 31.
• egg, 29.
• excluder, 78.
• first flight of, 32.
• head of, Plate VI.
• her attendants, 28.
• how she lays eggs, 33, 34.
• how to find, 99.
• how to handle, 99.
• how to introduce, 160.
• introducing by nucleus method, 162.
• introducing cage, Plate V.
• introducing of, 157.
• issues from cell, 30.
• larva, 30.
• leg of, Plate VII.
• maxims for introducing, 163.
• mother of her subjects, 27,
• piping of, 31, 32.
• rearing, 156, 157.
• removed to prevent swarming, 79.
• reproductive organs of, 30, Plate XXVI.
• selection of, 27, 28.
• surrounded by workers, 99.
• tested, 14.
• trap, 19, 75, Plate XIV.
• virgin, leads after-swarms, 79, 80, 81.
• weapons, 30, 31.
• wedding flight of, 32.
• when to introduce, 159.
• Queen-clipping device, 100.
• Queen-excluding honey-board, use of, 108.
• Queenless colony, 29.
• Queens, development of new, 29.
• females, 27.
• Queen's wings, how to clip, 100.
• Quinby, 207.

 

• Rape, 202.
• Rauchfuss wax-extractor, 130, 131
• Rearing queens, 156.
• Reaumur, 207.
• Red clover, 200.
• Red maple, 197.
• Red raspberry, 202.
• Reproductive organs, 191, Plate XXVI.
• Respiratory system, 188, Plate XXVI.
• Robbing, borrowing, 170.
• fate of the robbed colony, 170.
• how it is done, 166.
• how to detect, 167.
• how to prevent, 102.
• how to stop, 167, 168, 169.
• maxims to prevent, 171.
• the result of, 164.
• slow, 170.
• when it is likely to happen, 165.
• why, 164.
• Rocky Mountain bee plant, 204.
• Root, 207.
• treatment of foul brood, 177.
• views about smoking bees, 93.
• Royal jelly, 29.
• Rye flour for feeding, 142.

 

• Sage, white, 203.
• Sage, black or button, 203.
• Scrofularia venalis, 204.
• Section glazed for comb-honey, 106.
• holder, Plate XTV.
• holders, 88.
• of honey, Plate XIV.
• Section-boxes, 88, Plates II., III., XIV.
• no bee-way, 88.
• with bee-ways, 88.
• Sections, 11, 17.
• fence between, 88.
• foundation-comb for, 89.
• how to put together, 89.
• how to take off, no.
• no bee-way, 16.
• scraping of, 112.
• stained, 111.
• unfinished, 110.
• Sense hairs, Plate VII.
• Sense organs, 183.
• Sense pits, Plate VII.
• Shade for hives, 21.
• Sheep in apiary, 23.
• Shipping-cases for comb-honey, 113.
• Skeleton, 181, 187, Plate XXV.
• Slumgum, 131.
• Smell, organs of, 184.
• Smoking bees, should be done carefully, 93, 94.
• Smoker, Corneil, 16, Plate II.
• how to fill and use, 92, 93.
• Social insects, 27.
• increase of, 64.
• Solar wax-extractor, 130, 131.
• Sour wood, 198.
• Spanish needle, 204.
• Spraying fruit blossoms with arsenic, 196.
• Spermatheca, 192, Plate XXVI.
• Spermatozoa, 192.
• Spider flower, 204.
• Spiracles, 188, Plate XXVI.
• Spring dwindling, 154.
• Spur, Plate VII.
• Spur wire embedder, 86.
• Stained sections, 111.
• Sting, 193, Plate XXVI.
• Stomach, 191. Plate XXVI.
• Sumach blossoms, Plate XXIV.
• Storifying, no.
• Sunflower, 203.
• Super, 11.
• boxes, 209.
• cover, II, 91.
• description of, 87.
• filled with section boxes, Plate XV.
• for comb-honey, 87.
• for extracted honey, 87.
• foundation, 17.
• how to entice bees into, 108.
• how to prepare, 90.
• how to prepare and place in hive, 91.
• partly filled, Plate II.
• parts of, 87.
• ready to be filled, Plate XII.
• springs, 88, 90.
• Supers, 15, 83.
• different kinds of, 88.
• how to take off when filled with honey, 101.
• Swammerdam, 207,
• Swarm, how to hive, 66, 68.
• how to manage in difficult places, 69.
• how to reconcile to new hive, 70.
• how to stop, 66.
• size of 65.
• throwing dirt at, 67.
• use, fountain pump with, 67.
• Mr. West's device for saving, 71.
• when given off, 65.
• Swarm-catcher, the Manum, 19.
• Swarming, conditions that lead to, 65.
• control by brushing out method, 77.
• control by extracting honey, 76.
• control by giving room, 76.
• control by removing queen, 79.
• lessened by use of large hives, 77.
• necessary to produce comb-honey, 75.
• of bees, 64.
• owing to queen or workers, 65.
• Swarms, dividing of, 78.
• Sweet clover, 205.
• Swiss wax extractor, 131.
• Syrian, 47.
• Syrup, for feeding bees how to make, 137.
• medicated for foul brood, 177.

 

• Taking up bees, 208.
• Tallow, wax adulterant, 134.
• Tarsus, 185.
• Telescope cover, 15.
• Tenement hives for wintering, 149,
• Tents for bee-keepers, 102.
• Termites, 27.
• Thorax, 185.
• Thornapple blossoms, Plate XXVIII.
• Thyme, 230.
• Tibia, 185.
• Tiering up, 108.
• Tin pails for extracted honey, 123.
• Tinned wire, 12.
• Tongue, 184, Plate XXV.
• Tracheæ, 189, Plate XXVI.
• Trap for queen, 75.
• Trap, queen and drone, 19.
• Trees, 196.
• Trochanter, 185.
• Turnip, 202.

 

• Uncapping, 120.
• Uncapping cans, the Dadant, 121.
• Uncapping knife, Bingham, 120.
• Urinary organs, 191.

 

• Vagina, 192.
• Van Deusen wax -tube fastener, 12, 18, 86.
• Varnish used as bee glue, 61.
• Vas deferens, 193, Plate XXVI.
• Veil, need for, 16.
• Village garden for apiary, 22.

 

• Wasps, 27.
• Watering bees, 143.
• Wax, amount of honey required to make, 50.
• bees hang in curtains to make, 52
• bees secreting, Plate X.
• the constituents of, 51.
• how to make it, 126.
• made in the fields, 52.
• made when need for, 52.
• press, 132, 133.
• the secretion of, 50.
• scales, 52.
• Wax-extractors, 130.
• Wax-glands, 52, 191, Plate XXVI.
• Wax-pincers, 186, Plate VII.
• Wax-plates, 51, Plates VI., XXV.
• Wax-tube fastener, 18, Plate III.
• Weeds, 203.
• When to feed, 136.
• When to introduce a queen, 159.
• When to put bees into cellar, 153.
• White clover, 200.
• Wild flowers, 203.
• Willow, 154, 197.
• Wings, 185.
• Wintering bees in single-walled hives, 145.
• diarrhoea, 179.
• getting ready for, 146.
• how much food needed for, 146.
• in cellars, 150.
• in chaff hives, 148, Plate XXII.
• in hive boxes, 147.
• in tenement hives, 149.
• maxims for, 154.
• out doors, 147.
• poor honey for, 147.
• spring dwindling, 154.
• when to put bees in the cellar, 153
• when to take bees out of cellar 153.
• ways of, 147.
• Wire embedded by heat, 87.
• Wire embedder, 86, Plate III.
• Wire, tinned, 18, 85.
• Worker, 39, Plate V.
• cell of, 37, 40, 55.
• cocoon of, 41.
• death of, 39.
• Worker eggs, in drone cells, 37
• head of, Plate VI.
• laying, 45, 46.
• leg of, Plate VII.
• life and habits of, 42, 43.
• life-history of, 40, 41.
• maturity of, 41.
• moulting of, 41.
• old age and death of, 44.
• Workers, labourers, 27.