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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Honey-Makers By Margaret Warner Morley Author of "A Song of Life," "Life and Love," "The Bee People" Illustrated by the Author Chicago…

In Greece and Italy

36 pages

The Honey-Bee

3 pages

The Bee's Tongue

2 pages

Eyes, Antenne, and Brain

8 pages

The Wings

2 pages

The Legs

ALTHOUGH less airy and poetical than the wings, the legs of the bee have an interest of their own. In fact, when properly understood, they…

Honey-Sac and Wax-Pockets

2 pages

The Sting

7 pages

The Family

7 pages

The Drone

2 pages

The Worker

3 pages

The Swarm

32 pages

In Hindu Literature

11 pages

In Egypt and the East

13 pages

In Christian and Mediæval Times

14 pages

Curious Customs and Beliefs in Modern

10 pages

Bee-Culture at Present

33 pages

Abbé Barthélemy, 375

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

Babilos, 337

Index Bates' "Naturalist on the River Amazons," 371.

California, 93, 128, 167, 374, 376

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

Easter, 320

Eggs, fertilized, 121; laid by queen, 115, 119; laid by workers, 154; number laid, 120; of wax moth, 173; unfertilized, 122.

Danube, 93

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Illyria, 282

Ingelow, Jean, 346. "Institutes of Vishnu," 234.

L'Abbé Della Rocca, 91

Lubbock, see Sir John L. from bee poison, 111, 112; from stings, 112, 168.

Macedonia, 282

Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees," Mentum, 23. 323- Mandibles, 144. (See Jaws.) Mango and bee, 236, 237, 238.

Packard, 61, 138

Pater Abraham a Santa Clara, 17, 324.

Quarles, 347

Queen, 113-129; deprived of antennæ, 44, 45; excrement of, 152; in centre of swarm, 163; leads off swarm, 159; never stings, 140; no pollen…

Tacitus, 315

Teasel, 179. "Tegner's Frithiof's Saga," 212, 213.

Valhalla, 211, 212, 213

Value of apiarian products in the United States, 384.

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