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Schirach's discovery. 141. Factitious queens dumb. 142. 

 Factitious princesses allowed to engage in mortal combat.' 143. 

 Homage only offered to a married queen. 144. Respect shown 

 to her corpse. 145. Functions of the drones. 146. Their treat- 

 ment. 147. Their massacre described by Huber. 148. Case 

 in which no massacre took place. 149. Character and habits of 

 the workers. 150. Products of their labours. 151. Process of 

 work. 152. Honey and pollen nectar and ambrosia. 153. Bee 

 the priest who celebrates the marriage of the flowers. 154. 

 Why the bee devotes each excursion to one species of flower. 

 155. Unloading the workers. 156. Storage of spare provision. 

 157. Radius of the circle of excursion . . . .65 



CHAP. VI. 158. How they fly straight back to the hive. manner of 

 discovering the nests of wild bees in New England. 159. Average 

 number of daily excursions. 160. Bee pasturage transported 

 to follow it in Egypt and Greece. 161. Neatness of the bee. 

 162. Its enemies. 163. Death's-head moth. 164. Measures 

 of defence adopted by Huber. 165. Measures adopted by the 

 bees. 166. Wars between different hives. 167. Demolition of 

 the defensive works when not needed. 168. Senses of insects. 

 169. Senses of the bee. 170. Smell. 171. Experiments of 

 Huber. 172. Remarkable tenacity of memory. 173. Experi- 

 ments to ascertain the organ of smell. 174. Repugnancy of the 

 bee for its own poison. 175. Their method of ventilating the 

 hive. 176. Their antipathy against certain persons. 177. 

 Against red and black-haired persons. 178. Difference of opi- 

 nion as to the functions of the antennae. 179. Organs of taste. 

 180. Hearing : curious anecdotes. 181. Vision. 182. Pecu- 

 liar character of queens ; royal old maid. 183. Drone-bearing 

 queens. 184. Change of their instincts and manners. 185. 

 Their treatment by the workers. 186. Nuptials never celebrated 

 in the hive. 187. Effect of amputating the royal antennae . . 81 



CHAP. VII. 188. Apiculture. 189. Suitable localities and pas- 

 turage. 190. The Apiary. 191. Out-door Apiary. 192. Bee- 

 house. 193. Cabinet bee-houses. 194. Form and material of 

 hives. 195. Village hive. 196. English hive. 197. Various 

 forms of hives. 198. Various forms of bee-boxes. 199. Bee- 

 dress and other accessories of apiculture. 200. Purchase of 

 hives. 201. Honey harvest. 202. Honey and wax important 

 articles of commerce. 203. Various sorts of wild honey. 

 204. Periodical migration of bees. 205. Poisoned honey. 206. 

 Maladies of bees. 207. Curious case of abortive brood. 208. 

 Superstition of bee cultivators. 209. Enemies of bees. 210. 

 Attacks of bees when provoked. 211. Anecdote of Mungo Park. 

 212. Anecdote of Thorley. 213. Bee wars. 214. Curious 

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