INDEX 



281 



Sources of Honey, 230 



Sting of Bee, Construction of, 



170 

 Sugar-cane, First Introduction of, 



23 

 Swarm-hiving, First Century, 5 



in Middle Ages, 37 

 Swarm in May, 174 



Legal Rights in, 40 



Site selected by, 183 

 Swarming, 38 



Impulse, 96, 175 



Objects of, i8g 



Signs of, 182 



Temper in Bees, 219 

 Temperature of Hive, 91, 161 

 Tongue of Bee, Construction of. 



Undertakers in Hive, 63 



Variation in Hive-rules, 94 

 Ventilation of Hive, 60, 91 

 Virgil as Bee-master, 2 

 Voice-apparatus of Bee, 163 



W 



Wax, 15, 198 



Ancient Sources of, 16 

 Bees' Method of Working, 



201 

 in the Bronze Age, vi 

 Medicinal Properties of, 44 

 making. Food Consumed 



during, 161 

 production, a Profitable In- 

 dustry, 266 

 Water, Need of, in Hive, 84 

 Winter-feeding, Method of, 86 



life in Hive, 86 

 Worker-bee, 81, 85, 233 

 Age of, 85, 254 

 Artificial Creation of, 



130 

 Birth of, 140 

 Early Life in Hive, 



141 

 Glandular System of, 



142 

 Supremacy of, in Hive, 



68 

 Various Occupations of, 

 127 

 larvEe, Feeding of, 131 



