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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California, 93, 128, 167, 374, 376

378, 379, 380, 384, 388, 390.

Canary Islands, 182.

Ceylon, 174, 202.

Chambrier, 64.

Charon, 277.

Chaucer, 214, 345.

Cheshire, 46, 60, 140. (See Appendix.) China, 10, 257, 341.

Chrysostom, 320.

Chufu, 247.

Cicero, 100, 284, 286, 314.

Cider honey, 194.

Cineraria, 192.

Circassian legend, 336.

Cleanliness of bee, 73, 84, 151, 152.

Cleome Integrifolia, 178.

Clover honey, 27, 43, 177, 178, 179, 180, 366, 367, 377, 389.

Cocoon of larva, 124.

Coleridge, 199.

Collecting hairs, 77, 79, 148. "College of Bees," 359.

Color of combs, 187, 188.

Color of honey, 187. (See Appendix.) Color sense of bees, 42, 43.

Columella, 104, 155, 171, 267, 313, 314, 386.

Comb building, 140, 141.

Comb foundation, 146.

Combs, built out of doors, 364, 365, 366, 367, 370, 380; melting of, 166; quality of, 188; spoiled by propolis, Cook, A. J., 384.

Index Corbiculum, 78. (See Pollen basket.) Corinth, 375.

Cornel, 192.

Cornwall, 344.

Corsica, 192, 204, 294, 295, 373.

Cotton honey, 180.

Cretans, 265.

Crete, 93, 190, 264, 267, 268, 302.

Cross fertilization, 182, 183.

Cucumbers, 184, 204.

Çūdraka, 241.

Cummings, 370.

Cupid, 280, 281, 282, 347.

Curative properties, of bees, 85; of honey, 84, 85, 87, 191, 251, 252, 309; of poison of bee, III; of propolis, 150; of wax, 87, 88. Cure for stings, 90, 101, 109, 110.

Drone, 103, 114, 115, 121, 122, 124, 127, 129-136, 152, 154, 289, 297.

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