INDEX 
Sources of Honey, 230 
Sting of Bee, Construction of, 
170 
Sugar-cane, First Introduction of, 
23 
Swarm-hiving, First Century, 5 
in Middle Ages, 37 
Swarm in May, 174 
Legal Rights in, 40 
Site selected by, 185 
Swarming, 38 
Impulse, 96, 175 
Objects of, 189 
Signs of, 182 
T 
Temper in Bees, 219 
Temperature of Hive, 91, 161 
Tongue of Bee, Construction of, 
152 
- U 
Undertakers in Hive, 63 
Vv 
Variation in Hive-rules, 94 
Ventilation of Hive, 60, 91 
Virgil as Bee-master, 2 
Voice-apparatus of Bee, 163 
281 
WwW 
Wax, 15, 198 
Ancient Sources of, 16 
Bees' Method of Working, 
201 
in the Bronze Age, vii 
Medicinal Properties of, 44 
making, Food Consumed 
during, 161 
production, a Profitable In- 
dustry, 266 
Water, Need of, in Hive, 84 
Winter-feeding, Method of, 86 
life in Hive, 86 
Worker-bee, 81, 85, 233 
Age of, 85, 254 
Artificial Creation of, 
130 
Birth of, 140 
Early Life in Hive, 
I41 
Glandular System of, 
142 
Supremacy of, in Hive, 
68 
Various Occupations of, 
127 
larvee, Feeding of, 131 
