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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Illyria, 282

Immendorf, 359.

Immenhausen, 359.

Immenstadt, 359.

Imported bees, 128.

Incubation, 138.

Index India, 246, 352; bees imported, 128; bees of, 364, 365, 366, 367; lakes of honey, 166; literature of, 9; sugar, 10; Hindu literature, 225-246.

Indians of North America, 165, 168, 250.

Indra, 230.

Indras, 336.

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

Intoxicated bees, 194, 242.

Intoxicating honey, 191, 282, 283.

Intoxicating nectar, 194. "Iphigenia in Tauris," 277.

Ireland, 321, 380.

Iris, 28, 29.

Irving, Washington, 378.

Island of Malta, 180, 282.

Isle of Bourbon, 187.

Isle of France, 187.

Italian bee, 57, 81, 103, 128, 388.

Italian queen, 382.

Italy, 128, 264-318.

JAFFA, 387.

Jaws, 18, 19, 20, 72, 77, 142, 154.

Jean Paul, 341.

Jefferson, Thomas, 378.

Jenyns, 340.

Jerseys, 191.

Kamadeva, 243.

Keats, 347.

Killing bees, 155, 156, 285, 310, 311.

Killing drones, 135.

King-bee, 113, 114, 119, 122, 257.

King-bird, 170.

King Duff, 333.

King Lear, 89.

Kings, Book of, 260.

Knight, Andrew, 150.

Knox, 174.

Kohl's "Southern Russia," 93, 386.

Koran, 187, 256.

Krishna, 232.

Kubla Khan, 199.

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