386 INDEX. 



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Animation of bees suspended 202 



Antenna 255, 292, 307 



effects of their excision 309 



organs for communicating information . . 292 



for receiving meteorological intelligence ib. 



Antipathies of bees 303 



Ants, anecdotes respecting 183, 205 



(Amazon) anecdote of 323 



enslaved . 324 



their milch cattle 74 



white, wonderful fertility of 40 



Aphides 72 



principal source of honey-dew ib. 



their willing subserviency to bees and ants . 75 



wonderful fertility of 32 



Apiary 48 



best aspect for ib. 



Bonner's 51 



circumstances to be avoided in 48 



to be desired in ib. 



Apparatus for deprivation 107 



Architecture of bees 339 



commencement and progress of a comb first 



observed by Huber 340 



construction of a cell 34O 



of cells of transition .... 353 



of drone-cells ; 35O 



of royal-cells 351 



geometrical accuracy of cell-work .... 342 

 demonstrated by Maraldi, Kcenig, 



and M c Laurin 346 



honey-comb, description of 352 



varnish for strengthening cell-work . . . 344 



Armour of defence against bees, &c 175 



Aurelia. Vide Pupa. 



