CONTENTS. 



CHAP. III. 66. Drone cells and | 

 worker cells. 67. Store cells. j 

 68. Construction of combs. 69. 

 Wax-makers also produce honey, j 

 70. First operation of the wax- ' 

 makers. 71. Process, of the 

 foundress. 72. Kneading the 

 wax. 73. Formation of first wall. 

 74. Correction of mistakes. 

 75. Dimensions of first wall. 76. 

 Operations of the nurses. 77. 

 Bases of cells. 78. Wax-makers 

 resume their work Completion 

 of pyramidal bases. 79. Pyra- 

 midal partition. 80. Formation 

 of cells. 81-82. Arrangement of 

 combs. 83. Sides not parallel. 

 84. Process not merely mechanical. 

 85-86. Process of construction. 

 87. Labour successive. 88. 

 Dimensions of cells. 89. Their 

 number. 90. Bee-bread. 91. i 

 Pap for young. 92. Food adapted I 

 to age. 93. Transformation . 

 94. Humble-bees females. 95. j 

 Their nursing workers. 96. j 

 Transformation. 97. How the tem- 

 perature of the cocoons is main- 

 tained. 98. Anecdote related by 

 Huber. 99. Remarkable care of 

 the nurses. 100. Heat evolved 

 in respiration by the hive-bee. J 

 101. Cross alleys connecting the ; 

 streets. 102. First laying of the 

 queen in Spring. 103. Her royal ] 

 suite. 104. The eggs. 



CHAP. IV. 105. The larvse. 106. i 

 Transformation of worker nymph. ; 

 107'. Worker cells. 108. Treat- I 

 ment of a young worker. 109. Of : 

 the drone. 110. Drone nymph, j 

 111. Royal cell and nymph. ! 

 112. Its treatment. 113. Honey ! 

 cells. 114. Pasturage progress | 

 of work. 115. Construction of | 



of married queens. 126. Battle 

 of a virgin with a fertile queen. 

 127. Sentinels at the gates. Treat- 

 ment of an intruding queen. 128. 

 Remarkable proceeding of bees 

 that have lost their queen effect 

 of her restoration. 129. Effect of 

 the introduction of a new queen. 

 130. Policy of the hive. 131. 

 Operations at the beginning of a 

 season. 



CHAP. V. 132. Change of state of 

 the queen after laying. 133. 

 First swarm led by her majesty. 

 134. Proceedings of the first 

 swarm. 135. Loyalty and fidelity 

 to the queen remarkable expe- 

 riment of Dr. Warder. 136. In- 

 terregnum after swarming. 137. 

 The princess royal. 138. Second 

 swarm its effects. 139. Suc- 

 cessive swarms. 140. Production 

 of a factitious queen Schirach's 

 discovery. 141. Factitious queens 

 dumb. 142. Factitious princesses 

 allowed to engage in mortal com- 

 bat. 143. Homage only offered 

 to a married queen. 144. Respect 

 shown to her corpse. 145. Func- 

 tions of the drones. 146. Their 

 treatment. 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 mar- 

 riage of the flowers. 154. Why 

 the bee devotes each excursion to 

 one species of flower. 155. Un- 

 loading the workers. 156. 

 Storage of spare provision. 157. 

 Radius of the circle of excursion. 



comb. 116. Remarkable organ- j CHAP. VI. 158. How they fly 



isation. 117. Magnitude and 

 weight of bees. 118. Character 

 of queen. 119. Royal jealousy. ' 



120. Principle of primogeniture. | 



121. Assassination of rivals. 122. 

 Battle of virgin queens. 123. 

 Reason of mutual hostility. 124. 

 Result of the battles. 125. Battle 



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. Neat- 

 ness of the bee. 162. Its ene- 



