Vill TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Tut QueEN.—93. She was called king-bee. 94. Her sex discovered by 
Butler. 95.Swammerdam. 96. She does not govern. 97. Her fecund- 
ity. 98. How totestit. 99. She lays more !n Spring. 100. Description. 
101. Love of the bees for their queen. 102. Interesting experiment. 
103. Reproduction of the queen. 10%. Queen cells. 105. Their number. 
106. Are eggs deposited in the queen-cells by the queens? 107. Queens 
from worker eggs. 108. Different food, its result. 109. How orphan 
bees rear queens. 110. Duration of development. LIL. The virgin queen. 
112. Haber on the destruction of theirrivals. 213. Bees help in the 
work. L14. Rivals not destroyed when bees intend to swarm. 115. 
Voice of the queen. E16. Combat of queens. 117. Two queens in one 
hive. 128. Narration of the fact. 119. Otherinstances. 120. Impreg- 
nation of the queen. 121. Time ofimpregnation. 122. Leaving the hive 
and returning. 4223. The mating. 124. Single impregnation for life. 
125. Getting rid of the drone organ. 126. Fertilization in confiuement, 
127. Fecundation of the eggs. 128. Leidy and Siebold on the contents of 
the spermatheca. 129. How fertiilzation takes place. 130. Swammer- 
dam’s observations. 131. Huberconfining young queens. 132. Dzier- 
zon’s discovery. 133. Parthenogenesis. 134. Drone-laying queen. 135. 
Examination of her ovaries. 1436. Bees trying to raise queens with drone 
eggs. 137. Otherexpvriments. 138. Other proofs of parthenogenesis. 
139. Impregnation of the egzs. 140 No visible difference between drone 
and workereggs. 141. Effect of delayed fecundation. 142. Do queens 
know the sex of their eggs? 243. S. Wagner’s theory. 244. Facts 
azainst that theory. 145.Effect of the removal of drone cells. 146. 
Queens laying worker eggs in drone cells. 147. Root’s experiment. 148. 
Bordeaux experiment. 149. Difficulty of raising drones early in Spring. 
150. Drones in worker cells. 151. Refrigerating queens. 8352. Queen 
begins tolay. 153. Howshelays. 154 Breeding seasons. 155. Dif- 
ference in prolificness. 156. Supernumerary egys. 157. Old queens. 
Tne Worker Bees. —158. Numbers in a hive 1459. Their functions. 
160. Donhoff’s experiment. 161. Their first flight. 162 Their first 
honey gathering. 163. Young bees build combs. 164. They feed the 
brood. 165. Theeggs. 166. Thelarvey. 167. Casting the skin. 168. 
Capping the brood. 169.Thenymph. 170. The cast-off skins. 171. 
Duration of development. 172. The newly-hatched bee. 173. The first 
flight. 174. Should not be mistaken for robbers. 175. Sexual orzans 
not developed. 176. Fertile workers. 477, Their probable use. 178, 
Easily discovered. 179. Attempts to raise queens. 180 Remedy. 181. 
Instinct of the worker bees. 182. Short life, 183. Crippled workers. 
1814. Signs of old aze. 
Tue Dronrs.—185. Description and office. 186. Time of their appear- 
ance. 187, Insearchofthe queens. 188. Perishinthe act. 189. Num- 
bers in a hive. 190. No necessity forsomany. 191. Drone traps, and 
preventing the breeding of drones. 192. Their expulsion by the bees. 
193. Bythebee-keeper. 19-£. Raised in worker cells. 195. Why impreg- 
nation does not take placein the hive. 196 In-and-in breeding avoided. 
197. Comparative table of devclopment of queen, worker, and drone. 
