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.

Bee-Culture at Present

33 pages in this part of The Honey-Makers.

Bee-Culture at Present

FROM the time of Pliny in the second century of our era to that of Swammerdam in the middle of the seventeenth century nothing of…

Bee-Culture at Present: Huber

In the time of Bonnet lived a unique figure, the Genevese, Francis Huber, who devoted much of his time to the study of the bee and made…

Bee-Culture at Present: India

In India, however, where the bees are as highly valued by the people to-day as when Kalidasa gave them such frequent place in his love…

Bee-Culture at Present: Apis

The honey of the Apis Dorsata is said not to be of excellent quality, being thin and liable to ferment and mixed with all sorts of…

Bee-Culture at Present: Egyptians

Egypt still values the honey-bee, and though the ancient dynasties have passed away, the descendants of the bees of Menes survive and…

Bee-Culture at Present: Africa

Niebuhr reports having once seen a flotilla of four thousand hives on the Nile between Cairo and Damietta, making their way from Upper…

Bee-Culture at Present: European

Mr. Cummings in his "Adventures in South Africa" tells us that the wild bees there are the same as the domestic bees of England. But this…

Bee-Culture at Present: Nuremberg

In Germany from olden time the neighborhood of Nuremberg has been particularly celebrated. The bee-masters there formed a guild of their…

Bee-Culture at Present: Attica

Honey is still gathered by the bees of Attica and of Sicily, and the honey of Hymettus is eaten in Athens today, there being as many as one…

Bee-Culture at Present: Hymettus

The poet's favored palate, however, is still able to detect the flavor of antiquity in the Attic honey, and we are grateful to Byron for…

Bee-Culture at Present: California

The New World, covered with bloom, its wild flowers untouched by the plough, and free from the depredations of the insects that are a…

Bee-Culture at Present: Indians

The Indians are said to have foretold the approach of the white man by the swarms of bees that shortly preceded him, - a form of divination…

Bee-Culture at Present: Muir

There are many species of wild bees that eat honey but do not store it up, and it is to these that Muir refers in the following statement…

Bee-Culture at Present: Hawes

For several years a swarm of bees lived in the steeple of a church in a New Hampshire village. Finally, a large Bee-Culture at Present…

Bee-Culture at Present: Shasta

Muir tells us that the honey-bee is now found wild throughout the Sierra, swarms having escaped from their owners in the lowlands and taken…

Bee-Culture at Present: State

The following statement is made by A. J. Cook, Professor of Entomology in the Michigan State Agricultural College, and author of a book on…

Bee-Culture at Present: Padus

Pliny says: -. "There is a village, called Hostilia, on the banks of the river Padus: the inhabitants of it, when food fails the bees in…

Bee-Culture at Present: Greeks

Columella tells us that the Greeks, too, took their bees in search of honey, wandering from Achaia as far as Attica for the purpose.

Bee-Culture at Present: Italian

The year 1860 was a memorable one for the hive-bees of the United States, for there came the first consignment of their formidable rival…

Bee-Culture at Present: Theatre

Kálidása's Hero and Nymph is from Wilson's Theatre of the Hindus.

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…

Bee-Culture at Present: Bevan

Swammerdam's story - quoted from Bevan 159 Thorley: The Fem. Mon. 160 John Burroughs: Locusts and Wild Honey. Pastoral 162 Bees •…

Bee-Culture at Present: Kama

The companions of Kama - see Wilkins' Hindu Mythology "The Purańas distribute" Colebrooke: Essays: Religious Ceremonies of Hindus and…

Bee-Culture at Present: Harsa-Carita

This secretion does not appear to have been offensive to the people, far otherwise, and there are frequent references to it. The following…

Bee-Culture at Present: Glock

The two fables - see Glock: Symbolik der Bienen The Bee's Dream - The Warner Library of the World's Best Literature. Indian Lit.

Bee-Culture at Present: Proverbs

PAGE 245 246 246 Appendix "The king appoints" der Bienen "I take you to wife" PAGE Trans. from Glock's Symbolik 251 Ibid. 251 • 251 Things…

Bee-Culture at Present: Mecca

Les Bédouins, ou Arabes du désert. Raphael Trans. from Friedreich, Die Symbolik und Mythologie der 255 Natur "There proceedeth a liquor of…

Bee-Culture at Present: Menzel

Apollo's oldest temple - Pausanias: The Descrip. of Greece, bk. x. 5 Apollo the god of the bees - Menzel: Myth. Forsch.

Bee-Culture at Present: Lang

See Glock's Symbolik der Bienen, p. 179 "Or dulcet cakes" Tibullus: Elegy, xi. "Nay, but an if " ११ Theocritus: Idyl. Lang's trans. "Cupid…

Bee-Culture at Present: Appendix

Horus Appendix PAGE " And where men are disturbed' - Plato: The Laws, xi. 930. Jowett's trans.

Bee-Culture at Present: Honey

Wildman and the bees - Edward Bevan: The Honey 356 Bee. Revised, etc., by Mr. Augustus Munn Naked priests in India - Menzel: Myth. Forsch…

Bee-Culture at Present: Bees

London, 1876 ... 370 "They build their nest" Ree's Encyclopædia, quoted in English trans. of Huber: Obs. on the Nat. Hist. of Bees. 1841.

Bee-Culture at Present: Myth

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

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