The Family
The Family
The Queen EACH hive has long been known to possess one bee different from the others, and which received special care and attention from…
The Family: Aristotle
It is true that Aristotle was puzzled about the sex of bees, and that it was nearly two thousand years after his time before the matter was…
The Family: Philosophers
Moffett in his "Theatre of Insects" gives us the seventeenth-century idea on the subject, from which we learn that some at least, still…
The Family: Butler
The modern queen-bee certainly has no spot, like a diadem, glittering on her brow, as Pliny relates, but she is fairly entitled to the…
The Family: Pliny
Later the bees build a number of large thimble-shaped cells, generally on the edges of the comb, and with their mouths opening downward…
The Family: Schirach
Schirach proved by experiment that worker eggs could be transferred to queen cells and developed into queens, by receiving the queen's food.
The Family: Italian
The Italian bee has been introduced into this country by sending queen-bees from Italy, and this variety of bee is now very common here. It…