| Abdomen | lat. belly, stomach of insects |
| Absonding | departure from the hive by the entire colony |
| Adult | Full grown. |
| Allel | A specific exposure of a gen. |
| Anaphylactic Shock | A sudden and severe allergic reaction characterized by a sharp drop in blood pressure, swelling, and difficulty breathing. |
| Anther | the part of the flower that contains pollen |
| Apiarist | a beekeeper |
| Apiary | a collection of managed bee colonies |
| Apiculture | the science of beekeeping |
| Apis mellifera | Apis melifera, lat. Honeybee |
| Bacillus larvae | the bacterium that causes American foulbrood |
| Barbs | a part of the worker bee's sting which is used as an anchor. |
| Bee | lat. Apis mellifera |
| Bee bread | The mix of pollen and honey eaten by worker bees |
| Bee brush | A tool for gently removing bees of comb |
| Bee metamorphosis | the three stages through which a bee passes before reaching maturity: egg, larva, and pupa. |
| Bee plants | Plants that are frequented by bees for nectar and pollen |
| Beeswax | a substance secreted on the underside of the abdomen of worker bees used to build comb |
| Bottom boards | The floor of a beehive |
| Brood | developing bees (eggs, larvae, pupae) that have not yet emerged from their cells |
| Cap | a covering that closes a cell containing pupa or honey |
| Capping | The thin wax covering on cells full of honey. |
| Cell | a single hexagonal unit of comb |
| Colony | a community of bee having a single queen, thousands of worker bees, and for many parts of the year, drones |
| Colony division | exiting of a part of a bee colony to form a new hive |
| Comb | the hexagonal structure used to store honey and raise brood |
| Coniferae | Conifer |
| Crystallization | Honey is a supersaturated solution. Crystals will develop in honey when glucose crystallizes out of solution. Crystallization of honey is most rapid at 57?F |
| Cupid | the mythological Greek god who dipped his arrows in honey |
| Dance | a series of movements made by a forager bee or a scout bee to communicate the location and type of resource |
| Diploid | double chromosomes / also see haploid |
| Domastic bee | A worker bee in the second stage of its life. It spends its time maintaining the hive. |
| Drone | Male honey bee, been devoloped with diploid genom from unfertilized eggs. |
| Entomology | the science of insects |
| Entrance Reducers | Devices to limit the size of the entrance to a hive. |
| European foulbrood | an infectious brood dis ease of honey bees caused by streptococcus p/u ton. |
| Extractor | A machine that rotates honeycomb with great speed to remove honey |
| Feral | domesticated animals that have escaped captivity |
| Food chamber | a hive body filled with honey for winter stores. |
| Forager bee | a foraging worker bee |
| Foraging | the act of gathering pollen and nectar from flowers by worker bees |
| Foundation | wax coating in the base of a frame. The coating has an imprint of the hexagonal design of the comb to encourage bees to build their comb in line with the design |
| Frame | wooden rectangle with a sheet of foundation to support a comb |
| Genom | The whole construction plan of a organism |
| Glucose | Dextrose |
| Grafting | removing a worker larva from its cell and placing it in an artificial queen cup in order to have it reared into a queen. |
| Grid to separate | Part of beekeepers equipment, grid where only worker bees are able to fit through. Through that there is a separation between place for eggs and honey. |
| Guard Bee | The worker bee is 15 - 20 days old. In this stage, the worker bee's poison glands are developed and the worker guards the hive against enemies |
| Haemolymphe | "Blood"-similar substance in the bee organism |
| Haploid | half of chromosomes / view althogh diploid |
| Head | the front section of a insect body containing antennae and other sensory apparatus |
| Hexagon | a figure with six sides and six angles |
| Hive | the home for a bee colony |
| Hive tool | A tool for removing the capping off the comb. |
| Honey | the most important product of honey bee |
| Honey stomach | an organ in the abdomen of the honey bee used for carrying nectar, honey, or water. |
| House bee | a young worker bee whose activities are confined to the hive |
| Imago | adult animal |
| Instrumental insemination | the introduction of drone spermatozoa into the genital organs of a virgin queen by means of special instruments. |
| Larva | (plural, larvae) - middle stage of a developing bee; unsealed brood |
| Laying worker
| a worker which lays infertile eggs, producing only drones, usually in colonies that are hopelessly queenless. |
| Mapple | Broad leaved tree Bee plant |
| Mating flight | the flight taken by a virgin queen while she mates in the air with several drones. |
| Nectar | a sweet liquid secreted in flowers and on leaves of plants |
| Nuc box | A small hive used to start new colonies after splitting a hive. |
| Nuptial flights | a series of mating excursions made by a young queen |
| Nurse bee | A bee in the first stage of its life. It spends its time feeding brood and maintaining the hive. |
| Organism | a organism is a lifeform |
| Orientation flights | flights taken by house bees in preparation for becoming foragers |
| Phaenotyp | Characteristica of an individuum |
| Pheromones | Chemical substances for communication in the bee hive |
| Pistil | A flower's central organ that contains the stigma, style and ovary |
| Pollen | male reproduction unit of plants, essential for the bee organism |
| Pollen Basket | A smooth area on the hind leg of a bee surrounded by stiff hairs. It is used for carrying pollen. |
| Pollen insert | a device inserted in the entrance of a colony into which hand-collected pollen is placed. As the bees leave the hive and pass through the trap, some of the pollen adheres to their bodies and is carried to the blossom, resulting in cross-pollination. |
| Pollen patties | A mixture of pollen, honey, and a pollen supplement fed to colonies in early spring. |
| Pollen substitute | any material such as soybean flour, powdered skim milk, brewer's yeast, or a mixture of these used in place of pollen to stimu late brood rearing. |
| Pollination | the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma of a flower |
| Pollinizer | the plant source of pollen used for pollination. |
| Prime swarm | the first swarm to leave the par ent colony, usually with the old queen. |
| Pupa | (plural, pupae) - final stage of a developing bee; sealed brood |
| Queen | Normally only one in a colony, she is the authority who controlls the colony, only she lays eggs. From egg until queen, there are only 16 days. |
| Queen | a female bee that lays all the eggs in the colony |
| Queen cage candy | candy made by kneading powdered sugar with invert sugar syrup until it forms a stiff dough; used as food in queen cages. |
| Queen cell | a special vertically hanging cell used to place an egg that will become a queen |
| Queen excluder | A device for keeping the queen out of the honey supers |
| Re-Queening | Introducing a new queen into a colony. |
| Rendering wax | the process of melting combs and cappings and removing refuse from the wax. |
| Robbing | stealing of nectar, or honey, by bees from other colonies. |
| Royal jelly | food for queen larvae |
| Scout bees | bees that search and select a new hive site |
| Self-pollination | the transfer of pollen from an ther to stigma of the same plant. |
| Skep | a straw hive without movable frames |
| Slumgum | the refuse from melted comb and cappings after the wax has been rendered or removed. |
| Smoker | A device for introducing smoke into a hive. |
| Solar wax extractor | a glass-covered insulated box used to melt wax from combs and cappings by the heat of the sun. |
| Spermatheca | a pouch-like stucture on a queen's abdomen for storing sperm |
| Stamen | The male part of a flower where pollen-producing anther are borne |
| Stinger | 1/8'' long hollow tube with a barbed tip attached to a pocket at the end of the abdomen used to eject venom |
| Streptococcus pluton | bacterium that causes European foulbrood. |
| Sugar Shake method | A means of trapping mites |
| Sugar Syrup | A 2:1 mixture of sugar and water by volume. |
| Super | section of a mangaed hive used for honey storage, typically above the brood chamber |
| Supercedure | the taking over of an old queen by a daughter queen |
| Supersedure | a natural replacement of an established queen by a daughter in the same hive. Shortly after the young queen commences to lay eggs, the old queen disappears. |
| Swarm | The natural division of a bee colony. A swarm of the weight of 3 kg contains 1 kg honey. The beekeeper trys to supress swarming. |
| Swarm Cells | Comb cells used for rearing new queens. |
| Terramycin | an antibiotic used to prevent American and European foulbrood. |
| Thorax | latain, Body, the middle section of an insect body to which the wings and legs are attached |
| Tracheal mites | A parasitic mite. |
| Transferring | the process of changing bees and combs from common boxes to movable frame hives. |
| Travel stain | the dark discoloration on the sur face of comb honey left on the hive for some time, caused by bees tracking propolis over the surface. |
| Uncapping knife | a knife used to shave or re move the cappings from combs of sealed honey prior to extraction; usually heated by steam or electricity. |
| Uniting | combining two or more colonies to form a larger colony |
| Varroa | Mite, who could kill as a parasite of bees in the end the bee colony. The mite start to leech haemolymphe in the bee stadium larvae, that effects a misbuilded adult bee. If too many bees dies of that, the bee colony dies too. |
| Venom allergy | a condition in which a person, when stung, may experience a variety of symp toms ranging from a mild rash or itchiness to anaphylactic shock. A person who is stung and experiences abnormal symptoms should consult a physician before working bees again. |
| Venom hypersensitivity | a condition in which a person, if stung, is likely to experience an aphylactic shock. A person with this condition should carry an emergency insect sting kit at all times during warm weather. |
| Virgin queen | an unmated queen |
| Wax lid | A lid made by building bees to cap cells and help store the honey |
| Winter cluster | the arrangement of adult bees within the hive during winter |
| Worker bee | an unmated female bee |
| Worker comb | comb measuring about five cells to the inch, in which workers are reared and honey and pollen are stored. |
