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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Bee-Culture at Present: Honey

Wildman and the bees - Edward Bevan: The Honey 356 Bee. Revised, etc., by Mr. Augustus Munn Naked priests in India - Menzel: Myth. Forsch. . 356 357 Negro and Pole Ibid. 357 Herb melia - Ibid. 358 Erasmus' epistle - Butler: Fem. Mon. 359 See Hooker's Himalayan Journals, ii. 16 365 "The workers, more slender " - Frank Benton: The Honey Bee. 367 See Dict. of Economic Products of India: Geo. Walt.

London, 1890 368 "The Egyptians exhibit " Savary in Letters on Egypt, quoted by Robert Huish in "Bees; Their Natural History and General Management." 1844 369 "On the West Coast " The Hive and its Wonders.

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