iv. Contents. 



CHAPTER VII.— QUEEN BEE. 



Queen's internal anatomy — Power of control of sexes — Selection Paqe. 

 of the fittest — Golden rule of queen breeding — Emergency 

 cells — Production of honey — 'Artificial queen cells — Traits of 

 a good queen — Metamorphose from egg to perfect insect 

 Fecundation of a queen — Her marital flight — Queen from 

 maturity to maternity — Production of drones, its cause — 

 Impregnation of ovary, not the ovum — Productive and non- 

 productive female bees — Change of sexual character of 

 egg — Differentiation of eggs — Egg, embryonic stage to 

 maturity — Circumstances controling reproduction — inferior 

 queens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32-53 



CHAPTER VIII— THE DRONE. 

 Drones greatly maligned — Drone cells and their inmates — 

 metamorphose — Food during development — Comparative 

 area, &c., of wings — External anatomy of drone and 

 worker compared — Parthenogenical reproduction of — Not the 

 Ishmaels of bee — Five questions and the various answers 

 from correspondents, re drones — How to obtain high-class 

 drones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54-60 



CHAPTER IX.— MYSTERIES OF DRONE PRODUCTION. 



Not lazy nor idle — Value of males — One mating only — Progeny 

 all female — Drones result of previous mating — Female pro- 

 geny, result of queen's fecundation — Male progeny, result 

 of queen's mother's fecundation — Atavism — Perfect and 

 complete females — Perfect and incomplete females . . . . 61-63 



CHAPTER X— THE WORKING BEE. 



Working female — Home duties — Foragers — As forest makers — 

 As florists — Novelties in flowers — Orchardists — Nature's 

 workshops and workmen — Swammerdam on fecundation — 

 Development of egg and transformation — Moulting of larvae 

 — Chrysalis stages — Nurse bees, duties of — Wax workers — 

 Care of the young — Huber on nurse bees — Most useful in 

 the division of swarms . . . . . . . . . . . . 64-68 



CHAPTER XI.— FERTILE WORKERS. 



Procreativ© -> workers — Drone-laying queens — mysteries of the 



hive — Superseding queens . . . . . . . . . . 69-70 



CHAPTER XII.— SELECTION FOR STOCK. 



Selection of bees for stock purposes — Select the fittest and these 



survive — Mating uncontrolable — Can select the dam but not 



the sire — Select so as to excel in gentleness and labour — 



Resultant characteristics seen only in progeny — There is a 



barrier to overcome . . . . . . . . . . . . 71-73 



