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: Myth

Hive in empty powder cask - Menzel: Myth. Forsch.

Combs large as city gates - Grimm: Deutsch. Myth. "There is a village" - Pliny, xxi. 43 • 380 380 381 • . 385 Columella's statement about Greeks - quoted by Menzel: Myth. Forsch. 386 Bees conveyed from Eubœa Bevan-Munn: The Honey Bee • 386 Urquhart - quoted by Menzel: Myth. Forsch. 386 Kohl's Südruszland - Ibid. • 386 "Some 12,000 lbs."

Frank Benton in Bees 2 387 People of La Beauce Huish and others "Bees will go" - John Burroughs : Locusts and Wild Honey. The Pastoral Bees Index Apis Mellifica, 188, 364.

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