

Fig. 63.— Scotch hive. 



Fig. 65.— Cork hive 

 (South of France). 



Fig. 64. — Radouau*s 

 liive. 



THE BEE. 



CHAPTER VI. 



158. How they fly straight back to the hive — manner of discovering the 

 nests of wild liees in New England. — 159. Average number of daily ex- 

 cursions. — 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. Mea- 

 sures adopted bythe 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. Eemarkable tenacity of memory. — 173. Experi- 

 ments to ascertain the organ of smell. — 174. Eepngnancy of the bee 

 for its own poison. — 175. Their method of ventilating the hive. — 

 176. Their antipathy against certain persons. — 177. Against red and 

 bla«k-haired persons. — 178. Difference of opinion as to the functions 

 of the antennae. — 179. Organs of laste. — 180. Hearing: curious anec- 

 dotes. — 181. Vision. — 182. Peculiar characters 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 antennse. 



1-38. One of the many wonders ^'presented by tlieir economy is the 

 directness and unerring certainty of their flight. "While collecting 

 their sweets they fly hither and thither, forward or backward, and 

 right or left, as this or that blossom attracts them ; but when 

 fully laden with the spoil, though upwards of a mUe from their city, 

 they start for it in a course more exact than if they were guided. 

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