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and that they impregnate the Queens, 71; experiment 
proving the contrary, i., 72, and that the whole idea is a 
chimera, 73; the author offers his beft hive for feven of 
them, ib. 
Dedication, \. 
Difeafes of bees, 105, 106, 107, 121, 1325 fome perhaps con- 
tagious, 108. 
Driving of bees defcribed, 138; see Re-inforcing, Swarming, 
&c. 
Drones, the affiftance of, in producing eggs, not neceflary, 
53, 543 experiments in proof of this, 56, 57, 58, 59, 603 
defcription of them, 67; hitherto fuppofed to be males, 
68; fruitlefs conje€tures as to their ufe, 25. 75, various o- 
pinions {tated and refuted, 68, 69, 70; little drones fup- 
pofed to exift, 70; the contrary proved, 71, 72; a top 
{warm will thrive without drones, 73 ; experiment with 
four, 2b. ; which afterwards bred them, 2). ; the beft hives 
breed drones earlieft, 74; time of killing them, 2. 181 ; a 
curious conjecture, 75 ; not wholly unfuppcrted by facts, 
763 and therefore not to be totally reyjeCted, 775 without 
_ an experiment, which the author intends to make, 2., 78 ; 
‘manner in which the bees kill the drones, 1823 they fhould 
be affifted, 2.; make terrible havock among them, 20. ; 
efpecially in bad weather, 2b.; but rear them again in 
good, 24, 183; fometimes ‘banifh them, 7d. ; the confe- 
quences, 7). ; the author aflifts in killing them when nu- 
merous, 7b., 184; but not otherwife, 7b. ; see Killing. 
Duel between two Queen bees, 173, 1743 amicably fettled by 
the author, 7. : 
i: 
Earwigs, enemies to bees, 222; how to fearch for and de- 
{troy them, 7d. 
Edinburgh, flowers numerous in the neighbourhood of, 333 
might maintain fome hundreds of bee-hives, 34. 
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