TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Fia. Page Fig. 



1 Eye o£ worker bee 4 55 



2 Small eyes ot drone 5 56 



3 Section of drone antenna. . 7 57 



4 Surface of antenna 10 58 



5 Section of flagellum 12 59 



6 Salivary glands 16 60 



7 Section through head of 61 



worker 17 



8 Head of honey hornet .... 19 62 

 9. Head of honey bee 19 63 



10 Mandible of hornet 19 64 



11 Mandible ot bee 19 65 



12 Tongue 21 66 



13 Bee's feet 23 67 



14 Wings ot bee 26 68 



15 Digesting apparatus 27 69 



16 Nervous system 30 70 



17 Tracheal bag 31 71 



18 Sting of worker-bee 36 72 



19 Queen 40 73 



20 Head of Queen 43 74 



21 Queen cells in progress ... 45 75 



22 Queen cells built by Cy- 76 



prian bees 46 77 



23 Sting of queen 48 78 



24 Abdomen of queen 64 79 



25 Worker-bee 67 80 



26 Head ot worker-bee 70 81 



27 Egg In the cell 71 82 



28 Eggs and larva 72 



29 Coiled in the cell 73 S3 



30 Stretched in the cell 73 84 



31 Spinning cocoon 74 85 



32 Nymph 75 86 



33 Ovaries of worker-bees ... 78 87 



34 Brood from drone-laying 88 

 worker 79 



35 Combs of brood 81 89 



36 Drone 83 90 



37 Head of drone 85 91 



38 Sexual organs of drone ... 86 92 



39 Penis and spermatozolds. . . 87 ' 93 



40 Drone-trap 89 94 



41 Comb built upwards 93 95 



42 Wax scales 94 96 



43 Secretion of wax scales.... 94 97 



44 Wax producing organ .... 95 98 



45 Comb builders 97 99 



46 Slope of cells 102 100 



47 Worker and drone-comb . . 103 101 



48 Combs of honey 117 102 



49 Scrophularia 127 103 



50 Water supply bottle 129 104 



51 Earthen hive 132 105 



52 Box hive 133 106 



53 Birthplace ot Chas. Dadantl34 107 



54 Eke hive 135 ' 108 



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Radouan hive 135 



Eke ot 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 hoard 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 of E. J. Baxter . . . .245 



Queen-cell removed 269 



Cutting out queen cells . . .269 



Cluster of queen-cells 270 



Queen cells 271 



Divisible frame 272 



Divisible frame 272 



Benton divisible frame ...273 

 Egg in every other cell ..276 

 Alley's method 277 



