CONTENTS. 



Chap. III. — 66. Drone cells and I 

 worker cells. — 67. Store ceUa. — 

 68. Construction of combs. — 69. [ 

 Wax-makers also produce honey. ; 

 — 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. 

 Pap for young. — 92. Food adapted 

 to age. — 93. Transformation. — 

 94. Humble-bees — females. — 95. 

 Their nursing workers. . — 9Q. 

 Transformation. — 97. Howthet«m- 

 perature of the cocoons is main- 

 tained. — 98. Anecdote related by 

 Huber. — 99. Bemarkable care of 

 the nurses. — 100. Heat erolved 

 in respiration by the hive-bee. — 

 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 larva;.— 106. 

 Transformation of worker nymph. 

 —10?. Worker cells.— 108. Treat- 

 ment of a young worker. — 109. Of 

 the drone. — 110. Drone nymph. 

 — 111. Eoyal cell and nymph. — 

 112. Its treatment. — 113. Honey 

 cells. — -114. Pasturage — progress 

 of work. — 115. Construction of 

 comb. — 116. K«markable organ- 

 isation. — 117. Magnitude and 

 weight of bees. — 118. Character 

 of queen. — 119. Koyal jealousy. — 



120. Principle of primogeniture. — 



121. Assassination of rivals. — 122. 

 Battle of virgin queens. — 123. 

 Reason of mutual hostility. — 124. 

 Besult of the battles. — 125. Battle 



of married queens. — 126. Battle 

 of a virgin with a fertile queen. ^ 

 127. Sentinelsatthegates.- — 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. Fimc- 

 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. 



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. Neat- 

 ness of the bee. — 162. Its ene- 



