Table of Contents 



BY PARAGRAPHS. 



Chapter I — Physiology of the Honey-Bee 



1. CiKNKRAL RkinAKKS. 8. The Honey-bee. 3. The Hive, 4. The three 

 kinds of inhabitauts. 



General Lhaeactkkistics. — 5. The skeleton. 6. The frame of their 

 bodies 7. Hairs. 8. The three sections of the body. 9, Eyes. 

 10. Their structure. 11. Comparison. 13. Use of the small eyes. 

 13. Why so many facets? 14. Help in finding their "way back. 15, 

 16. Color., as guides 17, 18. Color not their only guide. 19. The 

 aotennce. 20. Our gratitude to H.iber and his servant Burnens. 21. His 

 wife. 22 His ability. 33. His e.xperlments on the antennae. 34. Can 

 bees perceive sounds ? 35. Where is their heai-in;? located ? 26. Where 

 are their smelling organs located? 27. The wonders of the microscope. 

 28. Number of atoms in a pin head. 29 Smelling organs. 30. Mar- 

 ^"elous power of smell. 31. Smelliug blossoms a mile away. 33,33, 

 Remem' ranee. 34. Depriving bees of their antenna;. 35. Cannot live 

 without antennae 36 Brain of bees 37. Our re\ erence for Swammer- 

 dam. 38. The mouth. 39. The glands. 40. Queea fed by the produc- 

 of the upper pair. 41. The others are salivary. 43. Mandibles 43. 

 Compared with those of hornets. 44. Other parts of the mouth. 45. Chin 

 and tongue 46. Labial palpi and maxillae. 47, The tongue is not a tube. 

 48. Action of the toague. 49. Its possible improvement. 50 The thor- 

 ax. 51 Legs. 53. Claws and pulvillL. 53. How tlie pulvilli work. 

 54. Uses of the hairs of the legs.- 55. The notch of the first pair. 56. The 

 pin of the second pair. 57. The pincers of the posterior pair 58. The 

 pollen combs. 59 Pollen baskets. 60. The wings. 61. Their power and 

 speed. 62 Digesting apparatus. 63. Honey sac and stomach mouth . 

 64 . Is the larva fed by the glauils ? 65 . 66 . Comparison with mammals . 

 67. Process of di,'estion. 68. Nervous system. 69. The heart. 70 The 

 lungs or trachea. 71. Their co.tiectioii with the flight 72. Bees unable 

 to take wing. 73 Their discharge in flight 74. Girard on the trachea. 

 75. The hamming. 76 Language of bees. 77 Stahala on this subject. 

 78. The sting. 79. Poison sack. 80, 81. Shape of the sting and how it 

 works. 82. Not easily withdrawn. 83 . Very polished weapon 84. Loss 

 of the sting. 85 Can be with Irawn 86. Bees can live without it. 87. 

 TheodoTof thepoi.ion. 88. The sting can wound after removal. 89. 

 When left in the wound. 90 Thanks to the writers , 91. Conclusions ol 

 Packard. 93. Intelligence of some insects 



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