Glossary - The Backyard Beekeeper - page 241

Balling the Queen —The action of worker bees attacking a new queen, or a queen cage,
intent on killing her because she is foreign. Often occurs during queen introduction.
Bee bread —a mixture of pollen and honey used as food by the bees.
Bee escape —a device used to remove bees from honey supers during harvest by per-
mitting bees to pass one way but preventing their return.
Bee space —¼″- ⅜ ″ space that bees live in.
Beeswax —a complex mixture or organic compounds secreted by eight glands on the
ventral side of the worker bee's abdomen; used for molding six-sided cells into comb.
Its melting point is from 144° F (62° C) to 147° F (64° C).
Bee veil —a cloth or wire netting for protecting a beekeeper's face, head, and neck from
stings.
Bee venom —the poison secreted by glands attached to a bee's stinger.
Bee Yard —a location where honey bee colonies are kept.
Bottom board —the screened floor of a beehive.
Brace/burr comb —comb built between parallel combs, adjacent wood, or two wooden
parts such as top bars.
Brood —the term used for all immature stages of bees: eggs, larvae, and pupae.
Brood chamber —the part of the hive in which the brood is reared.
Capped brood —pupae whose cells have been sealed as a cover during their nonfeeding
pupal period.
Cappings —the thin, pure wax covering of cells filled with honey; the coverings after
they are sliced from the surface of a honey-filled comb when extracting the best
beeswax.
Carniolan —dark-colored race of bees from Eastern Europe, which are very gentle.
Caucasian —grayish-colored race of bees from Europe, use excessive propolis.