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- 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.
