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THE LORE OF THE HONEY-BEE 



Larvae, Hatching of, 72 

 Laying Queen's Attendants, 107 

 Legs of Bee, 149 

 Life of the Hive, 54 



of the Queen, 119 

 Longevity of Bee, 15 



M 



Master-Bees, 42 

 Matriarchy in the Hive, xiii 

 Mead : Ancient Recipe, 26 



in Anglo-Saxon Times, 24, 25 



like Canary-sack, 27 



making. Modern, 26 

 Modern Bee-culture : Its In- 

 fluence on Bee-life, 190 



Hive, Capacity of, 95 

 Morat, 25 



Moses Rusden, King's Bee- 

 Master, 31 



N 



Nectar : Temperature required 



for its Secretion, 228 

 Night in the Bee-Garden, 60 

 Nursery- work in the Hive, 71 



O 



Oil of Wax, 45 

 Old Bee-garden, 51 

 Overseers in Hive, 64 

 Oxen-born Bees, 7 

 Oxymel, 44 



Parthenogenesis, 105, 122 



Pigment, 25 



Pliny and the Bee, 11 



Pliny's Mirror-stone Hive, 30 



Poison-sac of Bee : Its Contents, 



223 

 Pollen from Evening Primrose, 



34 

 gathering, 32, 53 

 loads. Homogeneity of, 57 

 Sources of, 56 . 

 Prehistoric Man and Honey- 



Bee, X 

 Propolis ; Its Nature and Uses, 

 57. 204 



Queen and Worker : Differences 

 in Bodily Structure, 



lOI 



Eggs, Identity of, 100 

 Queen-bee, 34, 41, 68, 71, 86 



Apparent Rulership of, 



96 

 Battle-cry of, 166, 193 

 Death of, 115 

 Duration of Life, 255 

 Fecundity of, 72 

 Fertilisation of, 121 

 Hatching of, 113 

 Her Mating-fiight, 72, 117 

 in Swarming-time, 178 

 Physiology of, loi 

 Rearing of, 103 

 Supersession of, 109 

 the Original Female Bee, 



98 

 Workers' Management of, 

 123 

 cell, Construction of, 100, no 

 larva. Feeding of, 113 

 Rearing of, gg 

 Queenless Hives, 105, 144 

 Queens : Five in Single Hive, g6 

 Mutual Antagonism, 114 

 Plurality of, in Hive, 94 



Reason and Instinct, 69 

 "Ringing the Bees," Roman 



Origin of, 38 

 Robber-bees, 144, 250 



Samson and the Lion, 11 

 Sanitation in the Hive, 88 

 Sexes, Proportion of, in Hive, 



124 

 Sex-question in Hive, xvi 

 Sirius, the Honey-Star, 13 

 Skep, Ancient Method of Dress- 

 ing. 37 

 Small-holder and Bee-keeping, 



259 

 Socialism and Hive-life, 75, 130 

 Soot-fungus, 229 

 Sororicide in the Hive, 120 



