280 
Larve, Hatching of, 72 
Laying Queen's Attendants, 107 
Legs of Bee, 149 
Life of the Hive, 54 
of the Queen, 119 
Longevity of Bee, 15 
M 
Master-Bees, 42 
Matriarchy in the Hive, xiii 
Mead: Ancient Recipe, 26 
in Anglo-Saxon Times, 24, 25 
like Canary-sack, 27 
making, Modern, 26 
Modern Bee-culture: Its In- 
fluence on Bee-life, 190 
Hive, Capacity of, 95 
Morat, 25 
Moses Rusden, King’s Bee- 
Master, 31 
N 
Nectar: Temperature required 
for its Secretion, 228 
Night in the Bee-Garden, 60 
Nursery-work in the Hive, 71 
oO 
Oil of Wax, 45 
Old Bee-garden, 51 
Overseers in Hive, 64 
Oxen-born Bees, 7 
Oxymel, 44 
P 
Parthenogenesis, 105, 122 
Piginent, 25 
Pliny and the Bee, rr 
Pliny’s Mirror-stone Hive, 30 
Poison-sac of Bee: Its Contents, 
223 
Pollen from Evening Primrose, 
34 
gathering, 32, 55 
loads, Homogeneity of, 57 
Sources of, 56 
Prehistoric Man and Honey- 
Bee, x 
Propolis : 
57, 204 
Its Nature and Uses, 
THE LORE OF THE HONEY-BEE 
Q 
Queen and Worker: Differences 
oa es Structure, 
Eggs, Identity of, 100 
Queen- wwe 34, 41, 68, 71, 86 
ee Rulership of, 
jetta: -cry of, 166, 193 
Death of, 115 
Duration of Life, 255 
Fecundity of, 72 
Fertilisation of, 121 
Hatching of, 113 
Her Mating-flight, 72, 117 
in Swarming-time, 178 
Physiology of, 1oz 
Rearing of, 103 
Supersession of, 109 
the Original Female Bee, 
98 
Workers’ Managementof, 
123 
cell, Construction of, 100, 110 
larva, Feeding of, 113 
Rearing of, 99 
Queenless Hives, 105, 144 
Queens: Five in Single Hive, 96 
Mutual Antagonism, 114 
Plurality of, in Hive, 94 
R 
Reason and Instinct, 69 
‘Ringing the Bees,” 
Origin of, 38 
Robber-bees, 144, 250 
S 
Samson and the Lion, 11 
Sanitation in the Hive, 88 
Sexes, Proportion of, in Hive, 
124 
Sex-question in Hive, xvi 
Sirius, the Honey-Star, 13 
oo ago Method of Dress- 
Roman 
ing, 3 
Smaii-bolder and Bee-keeping, 
259 
Socialism and Hive-life, 75, 130 
Soot-fungus, 229 
Sororicide in the Hive, 120 
