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Index 



Shelemon, 320. 



Shirach, 123, 173. 



Siberiaj 1S7. 



Sibyl of Ciimse, 278, 279. 



Sicily, 282, 293, 313, 374. 



Silenus, 275. 



Silesians, 337. 



Silk glands, 124. 



Sirius, 195. 



Sir John Lubbock, 42, 46, 51, 139. 



Skin, of larva, 124 ; eaten by moths, 



173- 

 Smell hollows, 46, 75. 

 Smell sense, 31, 48, 49, 50. 

 Smoke, as now used, 158 ; to kill bees, 



155, 156, 285,310, 311. 

 Smoker, 158, 313. 

 Snail, 151. 

 Solomon, 127. 

 Solon's Laws, 310. 

 Sophocles, 270, 287, 306. 

 Sorcery, 317, 318. {See Magic.) 

 Sour-wood, 179. 



South America, 88, 169, 178, 370, 371. 

 Spain, 373, 386. 

 Spartans, 252. 

 Spartium Nubigerum, 182. 

 Speech of bees, 52. 

 Speed of wing vibrations, 60, 62. {See 



Appendix.) 

 Spencer, 345. 

 Spiracles, 6t, 63, 74. 

 Spix's "Travels," 371. 

 Spring flight, 152. 

 Spur, yy. 

 Stahala, 65. 

 Stealing honey, 49, 50. 

 Sting, 14, 90-112, 125, 126, 132, 151. 

 Stinging, manner of, 105 ; reason for, 



91; to avenge hurt bee, 154; to 



prevent, 90, no; what causes, no. 

 Stingless bees, 371, 372. 

 Stings, cure for dull eyesight, 168 ; 



effect upon toads, 171; extracted by 



propolis, 151; fatal effects of, 107; 



prevention, 150; remedy for, 90, 



loi, log; supplied for medicine, 



112, 

 Strabo, 1S9, 257, 267, 293. 



Strained honey, 186, 187. 



Strainer for pollen, S3. 



Straw hives, 169. 



Substitute for wax, 87. 



Sucking stomach, 27. 



Sugar, 203; cane sugar, 10, 81, 82, 



194; grape sugar, 81, 82; history of 



sugar, 10, II ; made from honey, 85, 



86 ; of lead, it. 

 Sulphur for killing bees, 155, 156,285, 



310, 31T. 

 Sultan of Turkey, iSo. 

 Sun, 225, 226, 249, 270; symbolized 



by bee, 231, 232. 

 Supers, 147. 

 Superstitions, about bees, 152, 339, 



340j 341) 342, 343, 344; about wax, 



3^7, 318, 329, 33^^ 33^1 332, 333- 



Surplus honey, 152, 185. 



"SQtras," 227, 228. 



Swallow, 170. 



Swammerdam, 159, 362. 



Swarm, 159-176 ; leaving of, 159, 160, 

 162, 163; number cast, 159, 160; 

 ■when does not sting, 160, 161 ; set- 

 tled on girl. 161 ; settled in boy's 

 hat, 165 ; noises to prevent leaving, 

 162 ; runaway, 162-165 ; bee trees, 

 165, 166, 168; enemies, 168-174; 

 robbing, 172, 173; fights, 172, 173; 

 wax moth, 173 ; when queen is lost, 

 175; diseases, 176; stung Thorley's 

 friend, 108; to make settle, 353^ 



354- _ 

 Swarming, what it is, 125. 

 Swarming song, 48. 

 Sweat of heavens, 195. 

 Sweetmeats, 202, 203. 

 Syrian bees, 263, 389. 



Tacitus, 315. 

 Talmud, 258. 

 Teasel, 179. 



'• Tegner's Frithiof's Saga," 212, 213. 

 Telling the bees, 339, 340, 341, 342. 

 Temperature, during wax making, 

 140, 142; of hive, 162; of insect, 139. 

 Tennyson, 346, 348. 

 I Tertullian, 319. 



