INDEX, 



CHAPTER I. 



THE aUEEN. 



When seen, and how found, 6. Sting of the queen, 8. Her fecun- 

 dation, 7. Huber, the great [11 apiarian, 8. Huber's authority doubt- 

 ed, 11. Hui3h's opinion of Huber, 12. Queen's flight to meet the 

 males, 15. Analogy proves impregnation on the wing, 16. Huber 

 confines queens to prove the theory of impregnation on the wing, 16. 

 Retarded impregnation, 17. 



CHAPTER n. 



WORKERS. 



The effects of a sudden storm on bees, 23. Sex of workers, 25. 

 Workers said to be sometimes fertile, 26. Fertile workers, and the 

 power of workers to produce queens from ordinary worker-eggs, 27. 

 Kind of eggs laid by the queen, 27. Royal cells, how constructed, 28. 

 How young queens are produced, the number of royal cells in a hive, 

 etc., 29. Different food provided for the young queens, 30. The for- 

 mation of a new queen in the place of one that dies, or is lost, 32. 

 The supposed cause of the formation of fertile workers, 33. A case of 

 retarded impregnation in the queen, or of fertile workers, coming 

 under the author's own observation, 34. DifBculty of effecting the 

 impregnation of queens at particular seasons, 40. Fertile workers 

 never exist, except in cases of a failure to produce a queen, 41. 



CHAPTER HI. 



DRONES. 



Natural uses of drones, 43. Cause of the existence of so many 

 drones, 45. Impregnation operative for life, 46. Visionary alleged 

 uses of drones, 48. Huish encounters a savan bee-keeper, 50, When 

 drones appear and disappear, 51. Drones go forth to meet the queen, 

 54. Danger of the queen being lost during her excursion, 55. Huish's 

 vagaries relative to the use of drones, 55. The conflicting opinions 

 and theories of other writers disregarded, 56. Particular instances of 

 drones being allowed to live through the winter, 57. The old queen 

 always goes off with the first swarm, 59. Drones said to die immedi- 

 ately after coition, 61. The general massacre of drones, 61. ' 



