TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Pig. 



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Eye of worker bee 4 



Small eyes of drone 5 



Section of drone antenna. . 7 



Surface of antenna 10 



Section of flagellum 12 



Salivary glands 16 



Section through head of 



worker 17 



Head of honey hornet .... 19 



Head of honey bee 19 



Mandible of hornet 10 



Mandible of bee 19 



Tongue 21 



Bee's feet 23 



Wings of bee 26 



Digesting apparatus 27 



Nervous system 30 



Tracheal bag 31 



Sting of worker-bee 36 



Queen 40 



Head of Queen 43 



Queen cells in progress ... 45 

 Queen cells built by Cy- 

 prian bees 46 



Sting of queen 48 



Abdomen of queen 64 I 



Worker-bee 67 j 



Head of worker-bee 70 ' 



Egg in the cell 71 I 



Eggs and larva 72 



Coiled in the cell 73 



Stretched in the cell 73 



Spinning cocoon 74 



Nymph 75 



Ovaries of worker-bees ... 78 

 Brood from drone-laying 



worker 79 



Combs of brood 81 



Drone 83 



Head of drone 85 



Sexual organs of drone ... 86 

 Penis and spermatozoids . . . 87 



Drone-trap 89 



Comb built upwards ..... 93 



Wax scales ! . . 94 



Secretion of wax scales. ... 94 

 Wax producing organ .... 95 

 Comb builders 97 



Slope of cells 102 



Worker and drone-comb . . 103 



Combs of honey 117 



Scrophularia 127 



Water supply bottle 129 



Earthen hive 132 



Box hive 133 



Birthplace of Chas. Dadantl34 

 Eke hive 135 



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Radouan hive 135 



Eke of Soria 136 



Dividing hive 136 



Huber leaf-hive 141 



Original Langstroth hive... 143 



Berlepsch hive 144 



Langstioth hive early im- 

 provements 145 



Gravenhorst hive 147 



Old Standard L frame 147 



Wisconsin hive 148 



Hoffman frames 150 



Danzenbaker frames .. ..151 



Diagrams of hives 152 



Movable frame 158 



Frame with groove 159 



Van Deuzen clamp 160 



Hive with two supers 161 



Diagram of Dadant hive ..164 



Dadant hive, open 165 



Dadant hive, flat on bottoml66 

 Shoulder supporting frame. 167 



Metal spacers 168 



One and a half story hive. .168 



Spacing wire fixed 169 



Tool for spacing wire ....170 

 Removing spacing wire ...170 



Division board 171 



Frame for making straw 



mats 173 



Dovetailed hive 174 



Tri-state hive 175 



Jumbo hive 176 



How boards warp 179 



Observing hive 186 



Observing hive in a win- 

 dow 187 



Opening hives 190 



Bingham smokers 191 



Champion smoker 192 



Cornell smoker 193 



Bee-veil 196 



Comb-bucket 203 



Gathering a swarm 212 



Swarm-sack 223 



Entrance guard 240 



Non-swarmer block 241 



Apiary of E. J. Baxter . . . .245 



Queen-cell removed 269 



Cutting out queen cells . . .269 



Cluster of queen-cells 270 



Queen cells 271 



Divisible frame 272 



Divisible frame 272 



Benton divisible frame . . .273 

 Eeg in every other cell ..276 

 Alley's method 277 



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