TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS. 



FlO. Pase 



1 Bye of worker bee 4 



2 Small eyes of drone 5 



3 Section of drone antenna . . 7 



4 Surface of antenna 10 



5 Section ot flagellum 12 



6 Salivary glands 16 



7 Section through head of 



worker 17 



8 Head of honey hornet .... 19 

 9. Head of honey bee 19 



10 Mandible of hornet 19 



11 Mandible of bee 19 



12 Tongue 21 



13 Bee's feet 23 



14 Wings of bee 26 



15 Digesting apparatus 27 



16 Nervous system 30 



17 Tracheal bag 31 



18 Sting of worker-bee 36 



19 Queen 40 



20 Head of Queen 43 



21 Qu^en cells in progress ... 45 



22 Queen cells built by Cy- 



prian bees 46 



23 Sting of queen 48 



24 Abdomen of queen 64 



25 Worker-bee 67 



26 Head of worker-bee 70 



27 Egg in the cell 71 



28 Eggs and larva 72 



29 Coiled in the cell 73 



30 Stretched in Ihe cell 73 



31 Spinning cocoon 74 



32 Nymph . . . ; 75 



33 Ovaries of worker-bees ... 78 



34 Brood from drone-laying 

 worker 79 



35 Combs of brood 81 



36 Drone 83 



37 Head of drone 85 



38 Sexual organs of drone ... 86 



39 Penis and spermatozoids. . . 87 



40 Drone-trap 89 



41 Comb built upwards 93 



42 Wax scales 94 



43 Secretion of wax scales .... 94 



44 Wax producing organ .... 95 



45 Comb builders 97 



46 Slope of cells 102 



47 Worker and drone-comb . . 103 



48 Combs of honey 117 



49 Scrophularia 127 



50 Water supply bottle 129 



51 Earthen hive 132 



52 Box hive 133 



53 Birthplace ot Chas. Dadantl34 



54 Eke hive 135 



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Radouan hive 135 



Eke of Soria 136 



Dividing hive 136 



Huber leaf-hive 141 



Original Langstroth hive ... 143 



Berlepsch hive 144 



Langstroth hive early im- 

 provements 145 



Gravenhorst hive 147 



Old Standard L frame 147 



Wisconsin hive 148 



Hoffman frames 150 



Danzenbaker frames . . . .151 



Diagrams of hives 152 



Movable frame 158 



Frame with groove 159 



Van Deuzen clamp 160 



Hive with two supers 161 



Diagram of Dadant hive . . 164 



Dadant hive, open 165 



Dadant hive, flat on bottoml66 

 Shoulder supporting frame. 167 



Metal spacers 168 



One and a half story hive. .168 



Spacing wire fixed 169 



Tool for spacing wire .... 170 



Removing spacing wire . . .170 

 Division board . .v. ...... .171 



Frame for making straw 



mats 173 



Dovetailed hive 174 



Tri-state hive 175 



Jumbo hive 176 



How boards warp 179 



Observing hive 186 



Observing hive in a win- 

 dow 187 



Opening hives 190 



Bingham smokers 191 



Champion smoker 192 



Cornell smoker 193 



Bee- veil 196 



Comb-bucket 203 



Gathering a swarm 212 



Swarm-sack 223 



Entrance guard 240 



Non-swarmer block 241 



Apiary ot E. J. Baxter .... 245 



Queen-cell removed ■ 269 



Cutting out queen cells ...269 



Cluster of queen-cells 270 



Queen cells 271 



Divisible frame 273 



Divisible frame 272 



Benton divisible frame ...273 

 Egg in every other cell ..276 

 Alley's method 277 



