THE BEE : 



ATy sal u a§T® kv 



AND 



MANAGEMENT. 



FIRST CHAPTER. 



THE COMMON BEE. 



general character op the bee — huber's account of the bee — 

 butler's female monarchy — skill of the bees in music — powers 



given to the bees by huber system of schirach objections to 



it — the queen bee lays every egg in the hive — contrariety of 

 opinion respecting the bee — opinions of the german apiarians 



— german bee gardens — erroneous management of bushman 



eonner's discovery of little drones — the common bees take no 

 part in the multiplication of their species — the common bee, 

 according to huber, is a female — arguments against it — the 

 common bee a decided neuter — different species of befs — their 

 history according to huber — the working bees are endowed 

 with ovaries — eggs generated in some and not in others — the 

 administration of the royal jelly — efficacy of the royal 

 jelly — the female workers, according to huber, lay only male 

 eggs — discovery of mademoiselle jurine — common bees are im- 

 perfect females — their imperfection investigated — discovery 

 of mr. epignes — organization of the common bee — erroneous 



statement op huber in regard to the collection of farina its 



refutation — the honey bag— the venom vesicle — description of 



the sting remedies for it — prussian remedy for the sting 



opinion of lombard — bonner not affected by the sting of bees 

 — opinion of l'abbe della rocca — hives of bees made use of as 

 instruments of war — opinion of pigneron — only one species of 

 bees in england — its general characteristics — its division of 



labour according to huber his discovery of black bees — the 



opinion of renn1e and kirby respecting them — the existence of 

 the black bees said by kirby to be confirmed by thorley — the 

 same refuted — the superficial knowledge op kirby of the 

 natural history of the bee — the existence of the black bees 

 admitted by duncan — the system of huber in regard to the 

 existence of several species of bees — not founded on truth — 

 difference in the size of the bees accounted for — singular 

 hypothesis of huber in regard to the nurse bee — examination 

 of the disputed points — examination of the senses of the bees 



— study of the natural history" of the bee by the ancients — 

 by swammerdam, miraldi, reaumur, bonner, and schirach — 

 interest attached to the study of the bee. 



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