The Honey-Makers

Half natural history, half literature: how the honey-bee actually works — tongue, wings, sting, swarm — and then three thousand years of what people have believed about her, from the Vedas to mead.

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Abbé Barthélemy, 375

Abdomen, 11, 13, 14, 15, 61, 81, 86, Apollo, 270, 271, 283. 87, 94, 95.

Abyssinians, mead, 206.

Acid reaction of honey, 81.

Ackersegen, 334- Adonis, 316.

Apollonius Rhodius, 206, 275, 311.

Arabs, 187.

Arabia, 10, 11, 254, 255.

Aristæus, 270, 271, 275.

Aristobulus, 273.

Adulterated honey, 187. (See Appen- Aristophanes, 306, 307. dix.) Æschylus, 277, 290.

Africa, 93, 187, 252, 370.

African honey-bird, 170. (See Appendix.) Agesilaus, 252.

Air-cavities, 61.

Air-sacs, 61.

Air-tubes, 61.

Albert Dürer, 281.

Alcæus, 276.

Alder-honey, 177.

Alexander the Great, 10, 274.

Alexandria, 315, 316.

Altenberg monastery, 325.

Amalthea, 265, 267.

Ambrosia, 9, 245, 299.

Anabasis, 188.

Anacreon, 280, 306.

Andromeda, 193.

Aneurin, 207, 209.

Antenna cleaner, 74, 76, 79.

Antennæ, 13, 43-54, 120, 132, 139.

Antenor, 93.

Aphides, 198, 199.

Apis, 14, 15.

Apis Dorsata, 364, 365, 366, 367.

Apis Florea, 367.

Apis Indica, 364, 367.

Aristotle, 11, 12, 310, 311, 312; "History of Animals," 115; on bees as weather prophets, 352; on cleanliness, 73, 151; on drone, 129; on exclusion of drones, 135; on hearing, 46; on horses stung, 108; on incubation, 138; on loss of sting, 102; on noises bees like, 352; on origin of bees, 116; on origin of wax, 86; on purity of bee, 274; on queen's sting, 126; on sex of bees, 115; on smelling, 51; on smoking bees, 155; on source of honey, 195; on swallow, 170; on toad, 170; on voice of bee, 64; on wasps, 171.

Armenians, 386. "A Roman Beehive," 323.

Artemis, 269.

Artificial comb, 141.

Artificial wax, 94.

Ash, 192, 196.

Asia Minor, 191, 386. "Assemblies of Al Hariri," 255.

Assyrians, 257.

Atargatis, 257, 258.

Athenæus, 290, 298-308.

Athens, 264.

Attica, 181, 264, 374, 386.

Attic bee, 287, 295.

Attic combs, 292.

Attic honey, 292, 294, 307.

Austheia, 337. • Australia, 128, 184, 370.

Azalea, 193.

Azman, 330.

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