390 INDEX. 



Page. 



Bees, working, collectors from birth . . |5 



compared with drones 5 



destroy the drones 44 



fertile sometimes '23 



office of . , . . 3 



sex of 3, 24 



Cuvier's remarks on . . . 24 



Jurine's dissections of ib. 



usual number in a hive ..... 3 



Braggot, or common mead . . . ....?. 245 



Breeding, commencement of 37 



signs of 118 



early, to promote 119 



Hubbard's opinion of 117 



Cells, construction of. Vide Architecture. 

 Chrysalis. Vide Pupa. 



Circulation 271 



Clustering 123 



Cocoons 11, 12 



Cold, effect of on bees 117 



in diminishing the consumption of honey . 185 



Combs, construction of 34O 



constructed sometimes under resting-boards . 125 

 Comparative advantages of storifying and single- 

 hiving 122 



", of wooden boxes and straw- 

 hives 100 



Deprivation 162 



to be exercised cautiously 163 



possible accident at the time of ... 165 



modes of performing 167 



Isaac's 170 



