Index 



419 



Morley, Henry, 23^. 



Mormons, 351. 



Moschus, 297. 



Moses, 258. 



Mother-bee, 114, 115. 



Moths, 173. 



Motion of abdomen, 61 ; of sting, 96, 



97, 98, 99; of swarm, 163. 

 Moulting, 124. 

 Mountain laurel, 36, 37. 

 Mount Carma, 190. 

 Mount Carmel, 263. 

 Mount Hymettus, 180, 264, 268. {See 



Hymettus.) 

 Mount Ida, 93, 264, 265, 267, 295. 

 Mount Olympus, 222, 299. 

 Mount Shasta, 177. 

 Mouse, 151, 169. 

 Mouth parts, 21. 

 Movable frames, 157. 

 M. Reaumeur, 151. 

 Muir, 167, 177, 376, 379, 380, 3S2, 



383, 385- 

 Mulsum, 222. 

 Mungo Park, 93. 

 Muscovite ambassador, t66. 

 Muscovite hydromel, 220. 

 Music and bees, 47, 163, 244. 



Napoleon's bees, 350, 351. 



Narbonne, 182. 



"Natural History of Selborne," 174, 

 197. 



Nearchus, 10. 



Nectar, 239, 299 ; amount used to 

 make honey, 152; amount yielded, 

 178; forms bee poison, 100; from 

 leaves and stems, 194 ; in water- 

 tight cells, 143 ; no honey flavor, 

 84 ; of the gods, 9, 222 ; poisonous, 

 188, 189; rapidity of secretion, 178; 

 renewed as removed, 177; trans- 

 formed to honey. Si. 



Nectary, 28. 



Nerves and nervous system, 55. 



Nestor, 288, 290. 



New Year's Day, 320. 



New York, 181, 191, 192. 



New York City, 205. 



New Zealand, 184, 370. 

 Niebuhr, 370. 

 Nile, 252. 



Noise to make bees settle, 162. 

 Noises liked by bees, 352 3:^. 

 Number of bees eaten by one bird, 170. 

 Number of bees in hive, 67. 

 Number eaten by one toad, 171. 

 Number of swarms cast in one season, 



159. 

 Nuremberg, 202, 373, 374. 

 Nurse-bees, 138, 147. 

 Nymph, 138. {See Pupa.) 

 Nymphs as bees, 26S ; bees, origin of, 



358, 359- 

 Nymphs, bees as, 258. 



Oak, 265, 267, 295. 



Oatmeal, 148. 



Ocelli, 41. 



Odin, 211, 212. 



CEsophagus, 81. 



Oil of wintergreen, no. 



Olearius, 92. 



" Omaha Bee," 360. 



Orchids, 32, 33, 183. 



" Order of the Bee," 360. 



Origin of bees, 328 ; from Bacchus, 

 276; from carcass, 116, 117, 271, 

 272; from eggs, 115; from flowers 

 and leaves, no, 116, 117. 



Origin of honey, 195. 



" Origin of Species," 150. 



Origin of wax, 86. 



Ovid, 88, 192, 266, 274. 



Ovipositor, 126. 



Oxford, 359. 



Packard, 61, 138. 



Pain-d'epice, 203. 



Palestine, 261, 262, 386. 



Pan, 279, 280. 



Parafifine, S7. 



Paralyzing effect of poison, 14. 



Pater Abraham a Santa, Clara, 17, 324. 



Pausanias, 270. 



Pears, 194. 



Pennsylvania, 191. 



Perry, Nora, 349. 



