A | |
| abdomen | abdomen |
| abeille albinos | albino bee |
| abeille | bee |
| abeille chercheuse | scout bee (for forage) |
| abeille domestique | hive bee |
| abeille domestique | honey bee |
| abeille géante | giant or rock bee |
| abeille géante | rock bee |
| abeille glabre | hairless bee |
| abeille maçonne | mason bee |
| abeille naine | little bee |
| abreuvoir | drinking place |
| abricotier | apricot |
| acarien | acarine mite |
| acarien | mite |
| acariose | acarine disease |
| acariose | Isle of Wight disease |
| accouplement | mating |
| acide carbonique | carbon dioxide |
| acide formique | formic acid |
| acide lactique | lactic acid |
| acide pantothénique | pantothenic acid |
| acide phenique | carbolic acid |
| adultération | adulteration |
| agressif | vicious |
| aiguillon | sting (organ) |
| aile | wing |
| ajonc | gorse |
| albumine | albumin |
| amandier | almond |
| amasser | to store (honey) |
| amibiase | amoeba disease |
| amidon | starch |
| amorce de cire | starter strip |
| analyse | analysis |
| analyse du miel | honey analysis |
| analyse pollinique du miel | pollen analysis of honey |
| analyse pollinique | pollen analysis |
| anesthésie | anaesthesia |
| antenne | antenna |
| antérieur | anterior |
| anthère | anther |
| anus | anus |
| aorte | aorta |
| aphide | aphid |
| apiculteur | apiarist (US) |
| apiculteur | beekeeper |
| apiculture | apiculture |
| apiculture | beekeeping |
| apidologie | apiology |
| apodème | apodeme |
| apogée de la ponte | peak of laying |
| appareil buccal | mouthparts |
| appareil génital | genital system |
| appareil génital | reproductive system |
| appendice | appendage |
| arbre à abeilles | bee tree |
| arôme | aroma |
| aspirateur à gelée royale | royal jelly vacuum pump |
| assurance | insurance |
| atrophie | atrophy |
| attire-essaim | bee bob |
| aubépine | hawthorn |
| aulne | alder |
| auvent | porch (of hive) |
B | Haut |
| baguette supérieure | top bar (of frame) |
| balance | scales (for weighing) |
| banque de reine | queen bank |
| barbe | barb |
| barrette | bar |
| bâtisse chaude | warm way |
| bâtisse froide | cold way |
| bâtonnet pour le moulage des cellules | queen-cell moulding tool |
| battre le rapple | to fan (with scent organ exposed) |
| bidon à miel | honey can or tin |
| blocage de la ponte | restriction of brood rearing |
| blocage de ponte | brood rearing, restriction of |
| boîte à essaims | swarm box |
| bouillie larvaire | brood food |
| bourdon | bumble bee |
| bourdon des mousses | carder bee |
| bourdon | humble bee |
| bourdonner | to hum |
| bourrache | borage |
| bouteille à nourrissement | feeder, bottle |
| bout métallique | metal end (for frame) |
| brise-vent | windbreak |
| brosse à pollen ( 3ème patte) | scopa or pollen comb |
| brosse à pollen (pattes 1 et 2) | cleaning comb (on 1st and 2nd basitarsus) |
| brosse d'abeilles | bee brush |
| brosser | to brush (bees off comb) |
| bruisser | to roar (angry buzzing) |
| bruyère cendrée | bell-heather |
| bruyère cendrée | heather, bell |
| bruyère | heath |
| bulbe du pénis | bulb of endophallus |
| butiner | to work (a plant) |
| butineuse | field bee |
| butineuse | flying bee |
C | Haut |
| cadre à sections | section rack |
| cadre de hausse | shallow frame |
| cadre de hausse | super frame |
| cadre | frame |
| cadre plein | dummy (frame) |
| cadres mobiles | movable frames |
| cage à reine | queen cage |
| cage d'expédition | cage, travelling |
| cage-nourricerie | cage, nursery |
| cage-nourricière | nursery cage |
| caissette d'expédition | travelling box |
| callune | heather |
| calmer | to subdue (bees with smoke) |
| canal déférent | seminal duct |
| canal déférent | vas deferens |
| canal de la spermathèque | spermathecal duct |
| canal | duct |
| canal éjaculateur | ejaculatory duct |
| candi | candy |
| carniolien | Carniolan |
| cassis | black currant |
| cassis | currant, black |
| caste | caste |
| catalase | catalase |
| caucasien | Caucasian |
| cellule | cell |
| cellule de liason (rayon) | attachment cell (of comb) |
| cellule de raccordement | transition cell |
| cellule de sauveté | emergency queen cell |
| cellule de sauveté | queen cell, emergency |
| cellule emporte-pièce | queen-cell punch |
| cellule operculée | capped cell |
| cellule royale | queen cell |
| cellule sensibile | retinula |
| cérificateur solaire | solar wax extractor |
| cerisier | cherry (cultivated) |
| cerveau | brain |
| chaîne ganglionnaire | central nerve trunk |
| chambre d'hivernage | clustering space |
| champignon | fungus |
| chanter (de la reine éclose) | to pipe (of emerged queen) |
| chanter (de la reine toujours en | to pipe (of queen in cell) |
| chardon | thistle |
| chasse-abeille | bee escape |
| châtaignier | chestnut, sweet |
| châtaignier | Spanish chestnut |
| chevalet à désoperculer | uncapping tray |
| chiasme | chiasma |
| chitine | chitin |
| chromosome | chromosome |
| chypriote | Cyprian |
| cire d'abeilles | beeswax |
| cire gaufrée armée | foundation, wired |
| cire gaufrée | foundation |
| cire | wax |
| cirière | wax-making bee |
| clarification | clarification |
| classer le miel | to grade (honey) |
| clipper (la reine) | to clip (queen) |
| clou d'espacement | frame-spacing nail |
| cne sensoriel | sense peg |
| cocon | cocoon |
| coeur | heart |
| colonie bourdonneuse | colony with laying worker or drone laying queen |
| colonie | colony (of bees) |
| colonie éleveuse | nurse colony |
| colonie sauvage | wild colony |
| colonie surpeuplée | crowded (of colony) |
| colorimètre à miel | honey grader |
| colorimètre | grading glass |
| colza | rape, coleseed or colza |
| combustible pour enfumoir | smoker fuel |
| comportement | behavior |
| composées | compositae |
| conduite du rucher | management of apiary |
| cône sensoriel | pit peg |
| conifères | conifers |
| consanguinité | inbreeding |
| consommation | consumption (of provisions) |
| contrle d'essaimage | swarm control |
| conversion | conversion |
| copulation | copulation |
| corbeille à pollen | corbicula (pollen basket) |
| corbeille à pollen | pollen basket |
| cornée | cornea |
| corpora allata | corpora allata |
| corps adipeux | fat body |
| corps de ruche | brood chamber |
| corps vitré | vitreous body |
| cotonnier | cotton |
| cou | cervix |
| couche | seam (of bees between combs) |
| coudrier , noisetier | hazel |
| couleur de cuir | leather-coloured |
| cou | neck |
| coussin d'hivernage | quilt |
| couteau à désoperculer | uncapping knife |
| couteau cératome | skep knife |
| couvain bourdonneux | brood of laying worker |
| couvain | brood |
| couvain clairsemé | scattered brood |
| couvain de mâles | drone brood |
| couvain pétrifié | stone brood |
| couvain platré | chalk brood |
| couvain refroidi | chilled brood |
| couvain sacciforme | pickled brood |
| couvain sacciforme | sac brood |
| couvre-cadres | crown board |
| crampon , agrafe | staple |
| crapaud | toad |
| cristallin | optic or crystalline cone |
| crucifères | crucifers, Cruciferae |
| cupule | queen-cell cup |
| cycle de la vie | life cycle |
D | Haut |
| danse | dance |
| danse en rond | round dance |
| débris de cire | wax crumbs (on floor) |
| densité | density |
| dépopulation de printemps | spring dwindling |
| désinfecter | to disinfect |
| désoperculer | to uncap |
| développement | building up (of a colony) |
| développement | development |
| diaphragme | diaphragm |
| diastase | diastase |
| digestion | digestion |
| diploïde | diploid |
| distributeur à pollen | pollen dispenser or insert |
| division de la cellule | cell division |
| division du travail | division of labour |
| dominant | dominant |
| dorsal | dorsal |
| double paroi | double-walled |
| doux -douce | docile |
| durée de la vie | life (length of) |
| dysenterie | dysentery |
E | Haut |
| écaille de cire | wax scale |
| écaille | scale (foul brood) |
| écarteur | frame spacer |
| échantillon | sample |
| éclaireuse ou abeille chercheuse | searcher bee |
| éclaireuse | scout bee (before swarming) |
| éclore | to emerge (of brood) |
| éclore | to hatch |
| ectoderme | ectoderm |
| écume | scum |
| élevage de lignée pure | pure-line breeding |
| élevage de reines | queen rearing, raising or breeding |
| élevage du couvain | brood rearing |
| élevage sélectionné | selective breeding |
| élever | to raise |
| élever | to rear |
| embryon | embryo |
| encager | to cage (queen) |
| endoderme | endoderm |
| enfumer | to smoke (bees) |
| enfumoir | smoker |
| engrenage supérieur | top drive (of extractor) |
| ennemi des abeilles | enemy of bees |
| en possession de reine | queenright |
| enrucher | to hive (a swarm) |
| entomologie | entomology |
| entonnoir | funnel |
| enzyme | enzyme |
| enzyme | ferment (enzyme) |
| éperon | calcar, spur |
| éperon | embedder (spur) |
| éperon | spur |
| épicea | Norway spruce |
| épiderme | epidermis |
| épilobe | fireweed |
| épilobe | rose-bay willowherb |
| épilobe | willowherb |
| épine-noire | blackthorn |
| épine | spine |
| épine-vinette | barberry |
| érable | maple Acer |
| érable sycomore, faux platane | sycamore |
| espacement | bee-space |
| éspèce | species |
| essaim artificiel | artificial swarm |
| essaim artificiel | shook swarm |
| essaim de misère | hunger swarm |
| essaim déserteur | swarm absconded (after hiving) |
| essaim nu | package bees with queen |
| essaim primaire | prime swarm |
| essaim secondaire | cast swarm |
| essaim | swarm |
| essaim volage | lost swarm |
| estomac | chyle stomach |
| étendre | to expand brood nest |
| étendre | to spread (brood nest) |
| étiquette à miel | honey label |
| étiquette | label |
| étirer | to draw out (foundation) |
| eucalyptus | eucalyptus gum |
| évacuer | to evacuate |
| excrément | excrement |
| excrément | faeces |
| exosquelette | exoskeleton |
| expérience , essai | experiment |
| exposition de miel | honey show |
| extracteur à cire | wax extractor |
| extracteur centrifuge | centrifugal extractor |
| extracteur | extractor (centrifugal) |
| extraction de la cire | wax extraction |
| extraire | to extract (honey from comb) |
| extraire | to render (wax) |
F | Haut |
| facette | facet |
| faire la barbe | to cluster (on front of hive in hot weather) |
| fausses constructions | brace-comb |
| fausse teigne | greater wax moth |
| fausse teigne | wax moth, greater |
| faux acacia | locust tree |
| faux-bourdon , bourdon , mâle | drone |
| fécondation | fertilization |
| femelle | female |
| fermentation | fermentation |
| fertile, féconde (reine) | fertile (of queen) |
| feuille de cire gaufrée | comb foundation |
| feuillure | rabbet |
| fève | broad bean |
| fève-de-cheval | field bean |
| fève-de-cheval | horse bean |
| fièvre d'essaimage | swarming fever |
| filtre à miel | strainer (for honey) |
| filtre ou passoire à miel | honey strainer |
| fixer | to embed (wire in foundation) |
| flagelle | flagellum |
| flagelle | giant whip |
| fondre | to melt (wax) |
| fongicide | fungicide |
| formateur apicole | beekeeping instructor |
| fourchette à désoperculer | uncapping fork |
| fourmi | ant |
| fourreau de l'aiguillon | sting cavity or chamber |
| fourreau | sheath |
| foyer d'infection | center of infection |
| foyer d'infection | source of infection |
| framboisier | raspberry |
| frelon | hornet |
| front | frons |
| fructose | fructose |
| fût à miel | honey drum |
G | Haut |
| gaines de l'aiguillon | sheath of sting |
| gaines de l'aiguillon | sting sheath |
| ganglion | ganglion |
| ganglion sous-oesophagien | suboesophageal ganglion |
| ganglion sus-oesophagien | supra-oesophageal ganglion |
| gants d'apiculteur | bee glove |
| gardienne | guard bee |
| gelée royale | royal jelly |
| gène | gene |
| genêt | broom |
| génétique | genetics |
| genre | genus |
| givrage | frosting (of honey) |
| glande acide ou glande alcaline | poison gland |
| glande | acid gland |
| glande alcaline | alkaline gland |
| glande cirière | silk gland |
| glande cirière | wax gland |
| glande de Nassanov | Nassanov's organ |
| glande | gland |
| glande muqueuse | mucous gland |
| glande nourricière | brood-food gland |
| glande nourricière | food gland |
| glande nourricière | pharyngeal gland |
| glande postcérébrale | post-cerebral gland |
| glande rectale | rectal gland |
| glande salivaire | salivary gland |
| glande thoracique | thoracic gland |
| glossa ou langue | glossa or tongue |
| glucose | glucose |
| glycogène | glycogen |
| goût , saveur | flavour |
| goût | sense of taste |
| goût | taste, sense of |
| gouttière linguale | glossal groove |
| grain de pollen | pollen grain |
| graisse | fat |
| granulation | granulation |
| grappe | cluster |
| grappe d'hivernage | cluster, winter |
| greffer | to graft (larvae) |
| griffe | claw |
| grille à propolis | propolis collector |
| grille à reine | excluder (for queens) |
| grille à reine | queen excluder |
| groseillier à grappes | red currant |
| groseillier | currant, red or white |
| groseillier | gooseberry |
| guêpe fouisseuse | digger wasp |
| guêpe fouisseuse | fossorial wasp |
| guêpe | wasp |
| guêpier | bee-eater |
H | Haut |
| haploïde | haploid |
| hausse | shallow box |
| hausse | super |
| herbe aux chats | catmint, catnip |
| herbicide | herbicide |
| herbicide | weed-killer |
| hérédité | heredity |
| hétérozygote | heterozygous |
| hexagonal | hexagonal |
| hiverné | overwintered |
| hiverner | to winter |
| homozygote | homozygous |
| hormone | hormone |
| houx | gallberry |
| houx | holly |
| humidité | humidity |
| humidité | moisture |
| hybridation | hybridization |
| hybride | cross-breed |
| hybride | hybrid |
| hydrate de carbone | carbohydrate |
| hydromel aux aromates | metheglin |
| hydromel | mead |
| hydromètre | hydrometer |
| hyménoptères | Hymenoptera |
| hypoderme | hypodermis |
I | Haut |
| identification | identification |
| imago | imago or mature insect |
| impuissant | impotent |
| inanition | inanition |
| incubateur | incubator |
| incubation | incubation |
| infecter | to infect |
| infection | infection |
| insecticide | insecticide |
| insémination artificielle | artificial insemination |
| insémination artificielle | instrumental insemination |
| insémination | insemination |
| instinct d'essaimage | swarming impulse |
| instinct | instinct |
| intestin antérieur | foregut |
| intestin grele | intestine small |
| intestin grêle | small intestine |
| intestin | intestine |
| intestin moyen | midgut or mesenteron |
| inversion | inversion (of sugar) |
| invertase | invertase |
| isolation | insulation |
J | Haut |
| jabot | crop (honey stomach) |
| jabot | honey sac or stomach |
| jeune abeille | house bee |
| jointure | joint |
| joue | gena |
| journal d'apiculture | bee journal |
L | Haut |
| labiées | Labiatae |
| labium | labium |
| labre ou lèvre supérieure | labrum |
| larve de fausse teigne | wax moth larva |
| larve | grub |
| larve | larva |
| lavande | lavender |
| législation | legislation |
| légumineuses | Leguminosae |
| lentille | lens |
| leucocyte | leucocyte |
| lève-cadres | hive tool |
| lévulose | laevulose |
| lévulose | levulose |
| libellule | dragonfly |
| lierre | ivy |
| lieu de rassemblement de mâles | drone assembly place |
| linkage | linkage(genetics) |
| lobe antennaire | antennal lobe |
| lobe optique | optic lobe |
| longévité | longevity |
| loque américaine | american foul brood |
| loque européenne | European foul brood |
| loque | foul brood |
| lotier | bird's-foot trefoil |
| lotier ou lotier corniculé | trefoil, bird's foot |
| luzerne | alfalfa |
| luzerne | lucerne |
M | Haut |
| malade | diseased |
| maladie | disease |
| maladie du couvain | brood disease |
| mal de mai | May sickness |
| mâle | male |
| mal noir ou mal des forêts | paralysis during honeydew flow |
| mandibule | mandible |
| manipulations de printemps | spring management |
| manque de provisions | shortage of stores |
| marc de cire | slumgum |
| marjolaine ou origan | marjoram |
| marquer une reine | to mark (queen) |
| marronnier d'Inde | chestnut, horse |
| marronnier d'Inde | horse chestnut |
| maturateur | ripener |
| maturation | maturation or ripening |
| maturation | ripening, maturation |
| maxille | maxilla |
| mèche soufrée | sulphur cartridge |
| médian | median |
| méiose | meiosis |
| mélanose | melanosis |
| mélilot | clover, sweet |
| mélilot | melilot , sweet clover |
| mélipones | Meliponini |
| mélipones | stingless bees, Meliponini |
| mélissopalynologie | melissopalynology |
| membrane basale | basement membrane |
| membrane intersegmentaire | intersegmental membrane |
| membrane | membrane |
| mésoderme | mesoderm |
| mésothorax | mesothorax |
| mesure préventative | preventative measure |
| métabolisme | metabolism |
| métamorphose | metamorphosis |
| métathorax | metathorax |
| micropyle | micropyle |
| miel ambré clair | light amber honey |
| miel ambré | dark amber honey |
| miel ambré extra-clair | extra light amber honey |
| miel artificiel | honey substitute |
| miel blanc d'eau | water-white honey |
| miel blanc | white honey |
| miel clair | light-colored honey |
| miel crémeux | creamed honey |
| miel de callune, miel de bruyère | heather honey |
| miel de miellat | honeydew honey |
| miel de pâtisserie | baking honey |
| miel de presse | honey pressed |
| miel de presse | pressed honey |
| miel en rayon | comb honey |
| miel en section | section (for honey) |
| miel extrait | centrifuged honey |
| miel extrait | extracted honey |
| miel fluide | run honey |
| miel foncé | dark honey |
| miel granulé | honey granulated |
| miel | honey |
| miellat | honeydew |
| miellée | nectar flow |
| miellée principale | main nectar flow |
| miellerie | honey house |
| miel liquide | clear honey |
| miel liquide | liquid honey |
| miel surchauffé | over-heated honey |
| mimosa | mimosa, wattle |
| mimosa | wattle |
| miroir à cire | wax plate or mirror |
| mitose | mitosis |
| moeurs | habit |
| moisissure du pollen | pollen mould |
| moisissure | mould |
| moule à cire | beeswax mould |
| mourrir de faim | to starve |
| moutarde des champs | charlock, wild mustard |
| moutarde | mustard |
| mue | ecdysis, moult |
| mue | moult |
| muscle du vol direct | direct-flight muscle |
| muscle fléchisseur | flexor muscle |
| muscle | muscle |
| muscles de vol | flight muscles |
| mutation | mutation |
| mycose | fungal disease |
| myosotis | forget-me-not |
N | Haut |
| navette | rape |
| nectaire | nectary |
| nectar | nectar |
| nerf moteur | motor nerve |
| nerf | nerve |
| nettoyage | cleaning |
| nettoyer à fond | to spring-clean |
| nettoyeuse | cleaning bee |
| nid à couvain | brood nest |
| nosémose | Nosema disease |
| nourrice | nurse bee |
| nourrir | to feed |
| nourrissement de secours | emergency feeding |
| nourrissement spéculatif | feeding, stimulative |
| nourrissement spéculatif | stimulative feeding |
| nourrisseur | feeder |
| nourrisseur rapide | feeder, rapid |
| nourrisseur rapide | rapid feeder |
| nourriture larvaire | larval food |
| noyau | nucleus (of cell) |
| nucléus | nucleus (colony) |
| nutrition | nutrition |
| nymphe | nymph |
| nymphose | pupation |
O | Haut |
| occiput | occiput |
| ocelle ou oeil simple | ocellus or simple eye |
| odorat | sense of smell |
| oeil composé | compound eye |
| oeil composé | eye, compound |
| oeil | eye |
| oeil simple | eye, simple |
| oenocyte | oenocyte |
| oesphage | oesophagus |
| oeuf | egg |
| oeuf | ovum |
| oligotropie | constancy, oligotropy |
| ommatidie | ommatidium |
| oogenèse | oogenesis |
| operculer | to cap (cells) |
| opercules | cappings (wax) |
| operculé | sealed (of brood or honey) |
| oranger | orange |
| oreille | lug ( of frame) |
| organe d'accouplement | endophallus |
| organe | organ |
| organe sensitif | sense organ |
| orme | elm |
| orphelin | queenless |
| ostium | ostium |
| ouvrière pondeuse | laying worker |
| ouvrière | worker (bee) |
| ovaire | ovary |
| ovariole | ovariole |
| oviducte | oviduct |
| oviposteur | ovipositor |
P | Haut |
| pain d'abeilles | bee bread |
| palpe labial | labial palp |
| palpe maxillaire | maxillary palp |
| palpe | palp |
| papilionacées | Papilionaceae |
| paquet d'abeilles | package bees |
| paraglosse | paraglossa |
| paraloque | para foul-brood |
| paralysie | paralysis |
| parasite | parasite |
| paroi de la cellule | cell wall |
| paroi externe | lift (of double-walled hive) |
| paroi médiane | midrib (od combs) |
| parois simples | single-walled |
| parthénogenèse | parthenogenesis |
| partition | division board |
| passage | pop-hole |
| patte | leg |
| pêcher | peach |
| pédoncule | peduncle |
| peigne à pollen | pecten |
| peigne à pollen | pollen rake |
| peigne à pollen | rastellum |
| pellicule | pellicle |
| pelote de pollen | pollen load |
| pénis | penis |
| perce-oreille , forticule | earwig |
| perception de couleur | colour perception |
| perception des formes | sense of form |
| période d'essaimage | swarming season |
| perte hivernale | winter loss |
| pétiole | petiole |
| petite teigne de la cire | wax moth, lesser |
| peupler (une ruche avec des abeilles) | to stock (hive with bees) |
| phacélie | phacelia |
| pharynx | pharynx |
| phéromone | pheromone |
| philanthe | wasp, bee-killer |
| picking | transferring tool (for larvae) |
| pie-grièche | shrike |
| pigment | pigment |
| piller | to rob |
| pince à cadre | frame tongs |
| pin sylvestre | pine, Scots |
| pin sylvestre | Scotch fir |
| pipe d'apiculteur | smoker pipe |
| piquer | to sting |
| piqûre | sting (received from bee) |
| pissenlit | dandelion |
| placer | to put on (supers) |
| planchede vol | alighting-board |
| plancher | floorboard |
| planchette de vol | flight board |
| plantain | plantain |
| plante mellifère | honey plant |
| plante mellifère | nectar plante |
| plante pollinifère | pollen plant |
| plaquette d'obturation (de mâle) | clasper (of drone) |
| plaquette poreuse | sense plate |
| plastique | plastic |
| pleurite | pleurite |
| poche copulatrice | bursa copulatrix, copulatory pouch |
| poids spécifique | specific gravity |
| poil sensoriel | sense hair |
| poirier | pear |
| poison | poison |
| pollinies | pollinia (in orchids) |
| pollinisation | pollination |
| pommier | apple |
| pondre | to lay (eggs) |
| ponte | egg laying |
| ponte | oviposition |
| porte-rayons | frame holder |
| porteur d'eau | water carrier (bee) |
| pot à miel | honey pot |
| pou des abeilles | bee louse |
| poussoir à pollen | auricle |
| premier article du tarse | basitarsus |
| premier article du tarse | metatarsus |
| prépupe | prepupa |
| pressoir à miel | honey press |
| pressoir à pollen | pollen press |
| prétarse | pretarsus |
| proboscis , trompe | proboscis |
| progéniture , lignée | progeny |
| propodeum | propodeum |
| propolis | bee glue |
| propolis | bee resin |
| propoliser | to propolize |
| propolis | propolis |
| protéine | protein |
| prothorax | prothorax |
| protocérébron | protocerebrum |
| proventriculus | proventriculus |
| provisions , réserves | stores |
| prunier | plum |
| puissant | potent |
| pupe | pupa |
R | Haut |
| race indigène | native race |
| race pure | pure strain |
| race | race |
| râcloir à désoperculer | uncapping plane |
| rainure | groove |
| rammasser | to gather honey or pollen |
| ravageur | pest |
| rayon à couvain | brood comb |
| rayon de mâles | drone comb |
| rayon de miel | chunk honey |
| rayon de miel | honeycomb |
| rayon irrégulier | burr-comb |
| récessif | recessive |
| recherche | investigation |
| recherche | research |
| récolte du miel | crop (harvest) |
| récolte du miel | honey harvest |
| récolter | to extract (honey from hive) |
| rectum | colon |
| rectum | rectum |
| réducteur d'entrée | adjustable entrance |
| réfractomètre | refractometer |
| reine bourdonneuse | drone-breeding or laying queen |
| reine | queen |
| remède | remedy |
| renoncule | buttercup |
| renversement | eversion (of endophallus) |
| repli valvulaire | valvefold |
| reproduction | reproduction |
| réservoir à venin | poison sac |
| résistant | resistant |
| respiration | respiration |
| resserrer (le nid à couvain) | to contract (brood nest) |
| résumé | abstract |
| résumé | summary |
| rétine | retina |
| réunir | to unite (colonies) |
| revue d'apiculture | journal bee |
| rhabdome | rhabdom |
| robinet à clapet | honey gate, tap |
| robinier | acacia |
| romarin | rosemary |
| ronce | blackberry bramble |
| ronce | bramble |
| rosacées | Rosaceae |
| rose trémière | hollyhock |
| ruche à cadres mobiles | movable-frame hive |
| ruche à feuillets | hive leaf |
| ruche | beehive |
| ruche d'observation | observation hive |
| ruche en forme de panier | skep |
| ruche en paille | butt |
| ruche gratte-ciel | skyscraper hive |
| ruche | hive, beehive |
| rucher | apiary |
| rucher éloigné | out-yard (US) |
| rucher extérieur | out-apiary |
| ruchette à nucléus | hive nucleus |
| ruchette à nucléus | nucleus box or nucleus hive |
| ruchette de fecondation | hive mating |
| ruchette de fécondation | mating hive |
S | Haut |
| sac à air | tracheal sac, air sac |
| saccharose | sucrose |
| sainfoin | sainfoin |
| salicaire | loosestrife, purple |
| sang | blood |
| sapin rouge | common spruce |
| sarrasin | buckwheat |
| sauge | sage |
| saule | willow |
| sclérite | sclerite |
| scrofulaire | figwort |
| scutellum | scutellum |
| scutum | scutum |
| secouer | to shake |
| sécréter | to secrete |
| sécrétion | secretion |
| s'égarer | to drift |
| segment | segment |
| se grouper , s'amasser | to settle (of swarm) |
| sélection | bee breeding |
| sélection | breeding |
| semence | semen |
| séneçon jacobée | ragwort |
| sens d'orientation | location, sense of |
| sens d'orientation | sense of location |
| sensilla | sensilla |
| sens tactile | sense of touch |
| sens tactile | tactile sense |
| séparateur perforé | screen board (perforated partition) |
| se propager | to spread (of disease) |
| septicémie | septicaemia |
| sexe | sex |
| signes d'accouplement | mating sign |
| site exposé | exposed site |
| soie barbelée de l'aiguillon | lancet |
| soie | bristle |
| soleil d'artifice | play flight |
| souche , lignée | strain (genetics) |
| souche | parent colony (of swarm) |
| soufrer | to sulphur |
| source de miellée | bee forage |
| source de miellée | bee pasture |
| souris | mouse |
| sous-espèce | subspecies |
| spermathèque , réceptacle séminal | spermatheca, receptaculum seminis |
| spermatogenèse | spermatogenesis |
| spermatophore | spermatophore |
| spermatozoïde | spermatazoon |
| sperme | sperm |
| spermiogenèse | spermiogenesis |
| sphinx tête de mort | death's-head hawk moth |
| spore | spore |
| stade | instar |
| station de fécondation | queen-mating station |
| station d'élevage | breeding station |
| station de recherches | research institute |
| station expérimentale | experimental station |
| stérilisation | sterilization |
| sternite | sternite (sternum) |
| sternite | ventral plate |
| stigmate | spiracle |
| stigmate | stigma |
| stipes | stipes |
| strigile | strigilis or antenna comb |
| submentum | submentum |
| sucer | to suck |
| sucre de betterave | beet sugar |
| sucre de canne | cane sugar |
| sucre de fruit | fruit sugar |
| sucre dénaturé | denatured sugar |
| sucre inverti | invert sugar |
| suffocation | suffocation |
| sulfure de carbone | carbon disulphide |
| supercédure | supersedure |
| supplément en pollen | pollen supplement |
| support | hive stand |
| surrogat de pollen | pollen substitute |
| symphorine | snowberry |
| syrop | syrup |
| système nerveux | nervous system |
| système nerveux sympathique | symathetic nervous system |
| système respiratoire | respiratory system |
T | Haut |
| tarse | tarsus |
| tentorium | tentorium |
| tergite | tergite, dorsal plate |
| testicule | testis |
| thixotropie | thixotropy |
| thorax | thorax |
| thymol | thymol |
| thym | thyme |
| tibia | tibia |
| tilleul | lime or linden |
| toile phéniquée | carbolic cloth |
| toit | roof (of hive) |
| tournesol | sunflower |
| trachée | trachea |
| trachéole | tracheole |
| traitement | treatment (of disease) |
| transformation | transformation |
| transhumance | beekeeping, migratory |
| transvaser | to transfer bees |
| trappe à mâles | drone trap |
| trappe à pollen | pollen trap |
| trèfle blanc | clover, white |
| trèfle | clover |
| trèfle d'Alexandrie | barseem |
| trèfle incarnat | clover, crimson |
| trèfle rouge | clover, red |
| tritocérébron | tritocerebrum |
| trochanter | trochanter |
| trou de nourrissement | feedhole |
| trou de vol | entrance (of hive) |
| trou de vol | hive entrance |
| tube de Malpighi | Malpighian tube |
| tube digestif | alimentary canal |
| tube digestif | digestive tract |
| tube ovarien | ovarian tubule |
| tube séminifère | testiole, testicular tubule |
| tulipier | tulip tree |
| tupélo | tupelo |
V | Haut |
| vagin | vagina |
| vaisseau dorsal | dorsal blood vessel |
| valve proventriculaire | proventricular valve |
| valve ventriculaire | ventricular valve |
| variété | variety |
| veine | vein |
| venin | venom |
| ventilation | ventilation |
| ventiler | to fan (for ventilation) |
| ventouse | arolium |
| ventouse | empodium |
| ventouse | pulvillus |
| ventral | ventral |
| ventricule | stomach or honey sac |
| ventricule | ventrilicus |
| verge d'or, solidage | golden rod |
| vertex | vertex |
| vesce | vetch |
| vésicule séminale | seminal vesicule |
| vierge | virgin |
| vinaigre de miel | honey vinegar |
| vinaigre de miel | oxymel |
| virus | virus |
| viscosité | viscosity |
| vision mosaïque | mosaic vision |
| visite de rucher | inspection (of bee yard) |
| voile d'apiculteur | bee veil |
| voile | veil |
| vol de propreté | cleansing flight |
| vol d'orientation | orientation flight |
| vol , essor | flight |
| vol nuptial | mating flight |
Z | Haut |
| zinc perforé | perforated zinc |