# How to Keep Bees/Index

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.
* 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.