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is a piece of comb honey cut to fit into a container. The edges are drained before being
packaged. Chunk honey is a piece of cut-comb honey placed in a jar, which is filled
with liquid honey.
Dancing —a series of repeated movements of bees on comb used to communicate the
location of food sources and potential home sites.
Dearth —a time when nectar or pollen or both are not available.
Dividing —partitioning a colony to form two or more units, often called divides or
splits.
Drawn comb —comb with cells built out by bees from a foundation.
Drifting —bees going to a colony that is not their own.
Drone —the male honey bee.
Drone comb —comb measuring about four cells per inch in which the queen lays un-
fertilized eggs that become drones.
Drone layer —a queen able to produce only unfertilized eggs, thus drones.
Egg —the first stage of a honey bee's metamorphosis.
Encaustic Painting —a painting technique in which color pigments are added to melted
beeswax, which is used like oil paint for painting or drawing.
Entrance reducer —a wooden or metal device used to reduce the large entrance of a
hive to keep robbing bees out and to make the entrance easier to defend, and to reduce
exposure to wind and the elements outside.
European foulbrood (EFB) —an infectious brood disease of honey bees caused by the
bacterium Melissococcus (formally Streptococcus) pluton.
Extracted honey —liquid honey removed from the comb with an extractor.
Fanning or scenting —worker bees producing Nasanov pheromone and sending it out
to bees away from the colony as a homing beacon.
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