CONTENTS. 



PAET FIEST. 



THE NATURAL HISTORY OP BEES. 



CHAPTER I. 



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The queen tee 1 



Her shape and appearance, 1 



Mother and monarch, 2 



The age of queens, 2 



How long in being hatched?... 2 



The food of princesses, 3 



The fertilisation of queens 4 



Where fertiKsation takes place, 6 

 Sometimes lost on their mar- 

 riage-tour, 6 



Egg-laying, 7 



How many eggs laid daily ? 8 



The sexes of eggs, 8 



The ovaries of queens, 9 



The eggs of virgin or unmated 



queens, 10 



CHAPTER n. 



Drones, 10 



How long in their cells ? 11 



Why so many ? 11 



Their idleness, 11 



Their sorrowful end, 12 



CHAPTER HI. 



Working bees, 13 



Imperfect females, 13 



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Possess five senses, 14 



Their industry, It 



Their ingenuity, 16 



Their courage, 17 



How to tame and domesticate 



vicious bees, 18 



Have bees a language ? 19 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Ligurian or Italian bees 20 



CHAPTER V. 

 Government of a hive, 21 



CHAPTER VI. 



Swarming, 22 



Preparations made for it, 23 



The signal and the rush, 24 



Piping 25 



Second and third swarms, 26 



Royal battles, 27 



CHAPTER VII. 



Honey 27 



Crude and perfect honey 28 



No two kinds of different plants 

 yield honey alike, 28 



