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Bee-Culture at Present: Moffett

Should some alien being " "Every apiarist" - A. J. Cook: The Bee Keeper's Guide The Theatre of Insects Thomas Moffett. 1658 -- Most of the material in Moffett's book is taken from the writings of Conrad Gesner, a poor Swiss who at great pains collected all that was known of the history of animals and published five large volumes; but before he completed his work upon insects, death claimed him, in 1558, and his work after passing into several hands was finally incorporated in Moffett's work nearly a century after Gesner had prepared it. Bee's madrigal - Butler: Fem. Mon.

PAGE 46 47 47 48 "Not only as bees" Huber: Obs. on Nat. Hist. of Bees 48 • Bees smelling out nectar - A. I. Root: A. B. C. of Beekeeping . 49 Huber: Obs. on Nat. Hist. of Bees 50 "Placed some honey, etc."

Sir John Lubbock: Ants, Bees, and Wasps 51 66 Insects can smell" - Arist.: Hist. An., iv. 8 51 Pliny: Nat. Hist. chap. on Bees 51 Huber: Obs. on Nat. Hist. Bees 53 Thos. Moffett: Theatre of Insects 54 - Glands in head Cheshire: Bees and Bee-keeping, p. 80 55 Butler: Fem. Mon. . 57 Cheshire: Bees and Bee-keeping 60 Packard on respiration: "Guide to Study of Insects وو 61 Girard - quoted by Langstroth 62 The number of vibrations made by a bee's wing in a minute have been reckoned by registering the wing's beats on a rapidly turning wheel covered with lampblack, but this is not accurate, as the wing moved less quickly because of the obstruction 62 Girard quoted by Langstroth • 64 "When something seems" Langstroth Oēttl Klauss, quoted by 64 Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth: Hive and Honey Bee revised, etc., by Chas. Dadnet and Son. 1893 Appendix PAGE " Happy old man" - Virg. : Ecl., i. "Full merrily" Troilus and Cressida, Act. iv. Sc. xi. 66 Butler: Fem. Mon. 73 Ibid. 77 "Honey promotes " John Burroughs: Locusts and Wild Honey 84 Galen - quoted by Moffett in The. of Insects 85 "Honey wherein is found" - Moffett 85 Vaux's method of purifying honey - told by Bevan in The Honey Bee 86 Honey for preserving grafts, etc.

Ibid. 86 Henry VI., Pt. ii. Act iv. Sc. ii. 88 • King Lear, Act iv. Sc. ii. 89 Cymbeline, Act iii. Sc. ii. 89 "A small corsair" - told by Langstroth 91 Friedreich: Die Symbolik und Mythologie der Natur 92 "Lesser tells us" - Kirby and Spence: Introd. to Entomology 92 - "Pigneron relates " Robert Huish: Bees. London, 1817 92 "Olearius relates " - Menzel: Myth. Forsch. 92 "They are wrathful' - Virg. : Geor., iv.

Kohl's Südruszland - Menzel: Myth. Forsch.

Cicero: The Tusculan Questions, bk. ii..

Columella: Of Husbandry Thorley: The Feminine Monarchy Henry V., i. 2 Gay's Rural Sports, Canto I. L. 82 "All persons" - Arist.: Hist. An., v. 18 Virgil: Geor., iv.

Langstroth: The Honey Bee Huber: Obs. Nat. Hist. Bees Virgil: Geor., iv.

Frank Benton: The Honey Bee. 1896 Schirach: History of the Queen Bee Seneca: Of Clemency, chap. xix. 93 The Life and Travels of Mungo Park. Edinburgh, 1838. 93 100 103 104 107 114 115 116 116 118 118 • 119 Appendix "A voice is heard" - Virg.: Geor., iv.

Texan Bee Fournal. The Southland Queen. March, 1898 • Arist.: Hist. An., ix. II PAGE 128 129 130 Pliny, ix. vii. II The mating of the queen and drone of the hive-bee takes place high in the air and has seldom been seen by man. Consequently the ancients and even the moderns, up to recent times, were greatly puzzled on the subject of the generation of bees. Even Swammerdam believed the bees were fecundated by emanations from the drone. Huber explained the true method of mating, which has been repeatedly verified since, and which is very curious; since it is necessary for the queen to become impregnated quickly and at the same time to receive a large amount of fertilizing material for future use, she returns to the hive bearing with her the organs of the male. It is this loss and the consequent mutilation that causes the death of the drone in a few hours. It seems to be analogous to the loss of the sting, which so frequently occurs among workers, and always with fatal results.

The queen will continue to fly abroad every day for several days if she does not succeed in mating; but if she does not mate before a certain length of time, or if she fails to mate at all, she will never lay any but unfertilized or drone eggs. Huber: Obs. on Nat. Hist. Bees "In the vast creation" - Latreille: Hist. of Insects under article Bees. Quoted by Huish Packard's Guide to the Study of Insects. 133 134 137 138 66 - Bees preserve" Huber: Obs. on Nat. Hist. Bees 139 Cheshire: Bees and Bee-keeping 140 A. I. Root: A. B. C. of Bee Culture 144 John Burroughs: Locusts and Wild Honey. The Pastoral Bees Langstroth: The Honey Bee Appendix PAGE Henry IV., Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. IV.