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Queen cell - a large, vertical cell in which the queen bee develops, may be found on the edges or the middle of <br /> brood combs. <br /> Queen excluder- see excluder. • <br /> Queenless colony- a honey bee colony without a queen. <br /> Queenright colony- a honey bee colony with a queen. <br /> Rabbet- a piece of wood or metal on which the frame ends hang in the hive; a cutout area used as a frame <br /> rest. <br /> Requeening - removal of a queen from a colony and introduction of a new one. <br /> Robber bee- a field bee from one colony that takes, or tries to take, honey from another colony. <br /> Robbing -the stealing of honey from a colony by bees from another colony. <br /> Royal jelly- a mixture of glandular secretions of worker bees fed to developing queens. <br /> Sacbrood - a viral disease of immature honey bees. <br /> Scale colony- a hive that is maintained on a scale and whose weight change is measured and recorded daily <br /> or at frequent intervals. • <br /> Scout bee - a field bee that locates new sources of food, water, or propolis, or a new home for a swarm. <br /> Sealed brood - immature bees in their late larval and pupal stages within capped cells of the comb. <br /> Slumgum -the refuse from melted combs after all or part of the wax is removed. <br /> Small hive beetle -The small hive beetle (Aethina tumida Murray[Coleoptera: Nitidulidae]) is a pest to bee <br /> colonies. It enters the hive, eats honey, pollen and brood, and destroys the colony. <br /> Smoker- a steel container with an attached bellows in which burning material furnishes smoke to honey bees. <br /> The smoke masks alarm pheromones. <br /> Solar wax melter (solar extractor) - a glass-covered box used for melting combs and cappings by heat from the <br /> sun. <br /> Spermatheca - spherical organ in the queen that stores sperm she acquired on her mating flight. The sperm is <br /> used for fertilizing eggs throughout the queen's lifetime. <br /> Split—See Divide <br /> Super- a hive body used for honey storage above the brood chambers of a hive. <br /> Supering - placing supers of comb or foundation on a hive, either to give more room for brood rearing or for <br /> honey storage. • <br /> Supersedure - replacement by the bees of an established queen with a new queen without swarming. <br /> Beekeeping in Northern Climates 88 <br />