| Super | Holds a number of sections or frames and is placed above the brood chamber |
| Supersedure | Replacing of the old queen with a young one by honey bees |
| Swarm | Prime, First, Top - names for first swarms
Cast, Afterswarm - names for second swarms.
A swarm is a collection of bees with a queen which leaves the main hive to form a new colony |
| Swarm season | The period from May to July when bees will swarm |
| Thorax | The part of the bee between the head and abdomen to which the legs and wings are attached |
| Uniting | The joining together of two colonies to make one |
| Veal | Meat from calves of less than 15 weeks old |
| Wattles | The hangy-down bits, normally red, under a chicken's beak. |
| Wax moth | A moth that bores holes through the honeycomb, causing damage |
| Winter Cluster | The way that the bees cluster together in the hive during the cold winter months. |
| Yearling | An animal between one and two years old |
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