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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Easter, 320

Ecclesiastes, 202.

Eddas, 195, 196, 211, 212, 213, 338.

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

Egypt, 247-254, 364, 369, 370.

Egyptian bees, 389.

Eliot, John, 377、 Empedocles, 281.

Enemies of bees, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175.

England, 341, 343.

Ephesians, 257, 258.

Euripides, 276, 277, 290, 303.

Excrement, 84, 151, 152.

Curing of honey, 145. "Curious History of Insects," 174.

Extracted honey, 186, 187.

Cuvier, 362.

Eye-brush, 76.

Cybele, 268.

Eye-hairs, 42.

Cyprian bees, 389.

Eyes, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43; of drone, 132; Cypripedium acaule, 31, 35, 36. of queen, 120.

Cyprus, 128. "FABLE of the Bees," 323.

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