Contents 
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CHAPTER VII 
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THE SENSES 
Nervous system — Sense organs — Sight — Smell — An¬ 
tennal sense organs — Taste — Touch — Hearing — Temper¬ 
ature sense — Finding of the flowers — Finding of the hive 
— Memory — Nature of bee activities. 
CHAPTER VIII 
THE REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES AND PAR¬ 
THENOGENESIS 
Origin of the eggs — Origin of the male sex cells — Par¬ 
thenogenesis— Sex determination—Practical applications 
— Hermaphrodite bees — Eggs which fail to hatch 
CHAPTER IX 
RACES OF BEES 
Types of social bees — Species of the genus Apis — Vari¬ 
eties of the species mellifica — Egyptian — Syrian — Cyprian 
— Grecian — Caucasian — Italian — German — Carniolan — 
African races — Asiatic races — Chinese-Japanese — Best 
race of bees . 
CHAPTER X 
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES WITHIN THE 
UNITED STATES 
Variation in intensity of honey-flows — Variation in the 
value of plants — Beekeeping regions — General regions — 
The white clover region — The alfalfa region — The south¬ 
eastern region — The semi-arid region of the southwest — 
The sage region — Restricted regions — Buckwheat — Su¬ 
mac — Spanish needle — Willowherb — Sweet clover — Blue 
thistle — Raspberry — Beans — Heartsease — Variation 
within a region — Distribution of bees in the United States 
— Migratory beekeeping — Overstocking — Dadant out- 
apiaries . 
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162-180 
181-191 
192-204 
205-221 
