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INDEX—Continued
- Drone – Continued
- 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.