VIII TABLE OF CUKlJiKio. 



Tmtc QnnKN.— 93. She wa< called king-bee. 94. Her Bex diBCOvered by 

 Butler. 95. Swammerdam. 96. She does not govern. 97. Her feonnd- 

 ity. 98 How to test it , 99. She lays more In Spring. 100. Description. 

 101. Love of the bees for their queen. 102. Interesting experiment. 

 103. Reproduction of the queen. 101. Queen cells. 105. Their number. 

 106. Are eggs deposite 1 in the queen-cells by the i|ueens ? 107. Queens 

 from worlcer eggs. 108. Different food, its result. 109. How orphan 

 bees rear queers. 110. Duration of development. 111. The virgin queen. 

 112, Hnberon the destruction of their rivals. 113. Bees help in the 

 worlc. 114. Rivals not destroyed when bees intend to swarm. 115. 

 Voice of the queen. 116. Combat of queens 117. Two queens in one 

 hive. 118. Narration of the fact. 119. Other instances. 120. Impreg- 

 nation of the queen. 131. Time of impregnation. 122. Leaving the hive 

 and returning. 123. The mating. 124. Single impregnation for life. 

 12.'i. Gettingridof the drone organ. 126. Fertilization in confinement, 

 127. Feciindation of the eggs. 128. Leidy and Siehold on the contents of 

 the spermatheca. 129. How fertilization takes place. 130 Swaramer- 

 dani's observations. 131 . Huber confining youngqueens. 132 Dzier- 

 zon's discovery. 133. Parthenogenesis. 13 I. Drone-laying queen. 135. 

 Examination of her ovaries . 136 . Bees trying to raise queens with drone 

 eggs. 137. Other exp riments. 138. .Other proofs of parthenogenesis. 

 139. Impregnation of the eg?3. 140 No visible difference between drone 

 and worker eggs. 141. Effect of delayed fecundation . 142.Doqueens 

 know the sex of their eggs? 143. S. Wagner's theory. 144. Facta 

 a,?ainst that theory. 145. Effect of the removal of drone cells. 146. 

 Queenslaying worker eggs in drone cells. 147. Koot's experiment. 148. 

 Bordeaux e-xperiment. 149. Difficulty of raising drones early in Spring. 

 150. Drones in worker cells. 151. Refri.^'eratin,' queens. 152. Queen 

 begins to lay. 153. How she lays. 154. Breeding seasons. t55. Dif- 

 ference in prolificness. 1 56 . Supernumerary eggs . 157. Old queens. 



The Wohkve Bees. — 158. Numbers in a hive 159. Their fanctions. 

 160. Donlioff's experiment. 161. Their first fliiht. 162 Their first 

 honey gathering. 163. Young bees build combs. 164. They feed the 

 brood. 165. The eg^'s. 16(i. The larv£e. 167. Castini the skin. 168. 

 Capping the brood. 169. The nymph. 170. The cast-off skins. 171. 

 Duration of development. 172. The newly-hatclied bee. 173. The first 

 flight. 174. Should not be mistaken for robbers. 175. Sexual orjaua 

 not developed. 176. Fertile workers. 177 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. 

 181. Signs of old a.^e. 



The Dkonks.— 185. Description and office. 186. Time of their appear- 

 ance. 187. In search of the queens. 188. Perish in the act. 189. Num- 

 bers in a hive. 190. No necessity for so many. 191 . Drone traps, and 

 preventin-j; the breeding of drones. 192. Their expulsion by the bees. 

 193. Bythebee-keeper. 194. Ra'sed in worker cells. 195. Why impreg- 

 nation does not take place in the hive. 196 In-and-iu breeding avoided. 

 197. Comparative table of development of queen, worker, and dioue. 



