Category: Science - Biology
The different species and races 11 Common East Indian honey bee, _Apis indica_ 12 Tiny East Indian honey bee, _Apis florea_ 13 Giant East Indian honey bee, _Apis dorsata_ 13 Common hive or honey bee, _Apis mellifera_ 15 Cyprians 15 Italians 16 Carniolans 17 German, common blac...
The different species and races 11 Common East Indian honey bee, _Apis indica_ 12 Tiny East Indian honey bee, _Apis florea_ 13 Giant East Indian honey bee, _Apis dorsata_ 13 Com...
2. Chapter II.--Kinds of bees composing a colony Beeproducts and description of combs--Development of brood 19 Kinds of bees in a colony 19 Bee products and organs used in their preparation 21 Nectar and honey 22 Propolis 24 Bee...
3. Chapter IV. Establishing an apiary: Time--Selecting hives4. Chapter V.--Hives and implements 40Hives 40 Implements 47 Bee smokers 47 Veils 48 Honey extractors and honey knives 49 Wax extractors 50 Queen introducing-cages 50 Bee feeders 51 Section folders 52 Bee escapes 52...
5. Chapter VI.--Bee pasturage 566. Chapter VIII.--Securing surplus honey and wax 757. Chapter X.--Increase of colonies 95Natural swarming 95 Clipping queens 97 Automatic hivers 98 Prevention of after-swarming 98 Artificial increase 99 Dividing 100 Driving or brushing 100 The nucleus system 101 Pre...
8. Chapter XII.--Diseases and enemies of bees 112Diarrhea and dysentery 112 Foul brood 112 The wax moth 113 Braula or bee louse 115 Other enemies 115 Robber flies, dragon flies, etc. 115 Ants and wasps 115 Spiders 116 Toads an...
9. CHAPTER I.A knowledge of the structural peculiarities and the life history of bees will aid anyone who essays to manage them for profit in determining more accurately what conditions are...
10. CHAPTER II.Each colony of bees in good condition at the opening of the season contains a laying queen and some 30,000 to 40,000 worker bees, or six to eight quarts by measurement. Besides...
11. CHAPTER III.The demeanor of bees toward an individual depends largely upon his bearing and treatment of them. Langstroth, in his excellent treatise, Langstroth on the Honey Bee (p. 193, rev...
12. CHAPTER IV.Spring is the best season to establish an apiary, especially for a person unacquainted with the practical care of bees. Colonies in good condition procured then are more easily...
13. CHAPTER V.The safest and best rule in making or selecting hives and implements for the apiary is, _have them simple and accurate in construction_. A plain box with frames and as few other...
14. CHAPTER VI.Bees obtain their food from such a variety of sources that there are few localities in our country where a small apiary could not be made to yield a surplus above its own needs....
15. CHAPTER VII.The first examination in the spring should be mainly for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the honey stores have been exhausted. It should be early, and hence not so ex...
16. CHAPTER VIII.If the colonies of bees have been brought to the opening of a given honey flow with a powerful population recently hatched it will require no great skill to secure a good crop,...
17. CHAPTER IX.So much of the bee keeper's success depends upon the strength of his colonies, and this in turn upon the character of the queens heading these colonies, that he needs to be well...
18. CHAPTER X.An abundant secretion of honey and general prosperity of the colony--with combs crowded with bees and brood--are the immediate conditions which incite a colony of bees to swarm....
19. CHAPTER XI.There will be little complaint of losses in wintering bees, whether in a cold climate or a warm one, whether indoors or outside, provided the following points are observed with...
20. CHAPTER XII.In the chapter on wintering bees allusion has been made to certain conditions which bring about diarrhea in bees. Not only will soured or fermented honey produce this disease, b...