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Index 



Shelemon, 320. 



Shirach, 123, 173. 



Siberia, 1S7. 



Sibyl of Cumse, 27S, 279. 



Sicily, 282, 293, 313, 374. 



Silenus, 275. 



Silesians, 337. 



Silk glands, 124. 



Sirius, 195. 



Sir John Lubbock, 42, 46, 51, 139. 



Skin, of larva, 124; eaten by moths, 



173- 



Smell hollows, 46, 75. 



Smell sense, 31, 48, 49, 50. 



Smoke, as now used, 158 ; to kill bees, 

 155. 156, 285, 310, 311. 



Smoker, 158, 313. 



Snail, 151. 



Solomon, 127. 



Solon's Laws, 310. 



Sophocles, 270, 287, 306. 



Sorcery, 317, 318. {See Magic.) 



Sour-wood, 179. 



South America, 88, 169, 178, 370, 371. 



Spain, 373, 386. 



Spartans, 252. 



Spartium Nubigerum, 182. 



Speech of bees, 52. 



Speed of wing vibrations, 60, 62. {See 

 Appendix.) 



Spencer, 345. 



Spiracles, 6t, 63, 74. 



Spix's "Travels," 371. 



Spring flight, 152. 



Spur, 77. 



Stahala, 65. 



Stealing honey, 49, 50. 



Sting, 14, 90-112, 125, 126, 132, 151. 



Stinging, manner of, 105 ; reason for, 

 91; to avenge hurt bee, 154; to 

 prevent, 90, no; what causes, no. 

 Stingless bees, 371, 372. 

 Stings, cure for dull eyesight, 168 ; 

 effect upon toads, 171 ; extracted by 

 propolis, 151; fatal effects of, 107; 

 prevention, 150; remedy for, 90, 

 loi, 109; supplied for medicine, 

 112. 

 Strabo, 189, 257, 267, 293. 



Strained honey, 186, 187. 



Strainer for pollen, S3. 



Straw hives, 169. 



Substitute for wax, 87. 



Sucking stomach, 27. 



Sugar, 203; cane sugar, 10, 81, 82, 

 194; grape sugar, 81, 82; history of 

 sugar, 10, II ; made from honey, 85, 

 86 ; of lead, 11. 



Sulphur for killing bees, 155, 156,285, 



3101 3"- 



Sultan of Turkey, 180. 



Sun, 225, 226, 249, 270; symbolized 

 by bee, 231, 232. 



Supers, 147. 



Superstitions, about bees, 152, 339, 

 340, 341, 342, 343, 344; about wax, 

 317, 318, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333. 



Surplus honey, 152, 185. 



" Sutras," 227, 228. 



Swallow, 170. 



Swammerdam, 159, 362. 



Swarm, 159-176 ; leaving of, 159, 160, 

 162, 163; number cast, 159, 160; 

 when does not sting, 160, 161 ; set- 

 tled on girl, 161 ; settled in boy's 

 hat, 165 ; noises to prevent leaving, 

 162 ; runaway, 162-165 ; bee trees, 

 165, 166, 16S; enemies, 168-174; 

 robbing, 172, 173; fights, 172, 173; 

 wax moth, 173 ; when queen is lost, 

 175; diseases, 176; stung Thorley's 

 friend, 108; to make settle, 353, 



354-. 

 Swarming, what it is, 125. 



Swarming song, 48. 



Sweat of heavens, 195. 



Sweetmeats, 202, 203. 



Syrian bees, 263, 389. 



Tacitus, 315. 

 Talmud, 258. 

 Teasel, 179. 



" Tegner's Frithiof's Saga," 212, 213. 

 Telling the bees, 339, 340, 341, 342. 

 Temperature, during wax making, 

 140, 142 ; of hive, 162; of insect, 139. 

 Tennyson, 346, 348. 

 Tertullian, 319. 



