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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Tacitus, 315

Talmud, 258.

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

Telling the bees, 339, 340, 341, 342.

Temperature, during wax making, 140, 142; of hive, 162; of insect, 139.

Tennyson, 346, 348.

Tertullian, 319.

Texan Bee Journal, 128.

Texas, 185, 359.

Thebes, 375.

Index Varnish, 149, 150. (See Propolis.) Varro, 155, 225, 313, 315.

Vedas, 225, 226, 227.

Theocritus, 279, 280, 295, 296, 297, Vedic poets, 9. 316.

Theophrastus, 10.

Thessaly, 268, 282, 386.

Thighs, 70, 78, 115, 150, 156.

Thomas of Cantiprat, 324.

Thomson, 17, 156.

Thorax, 13, 15, 18, 57, 60, 77.

Ventilation of hive, 67, 68, 69.

Venus, 281.

Vergiliæ, 195.

Vetches, 194.

Vibration of bee's wing, 60, 62. (See Appendix.) Vinegar and honey, 221.

Thorley, 107, 155, 161, 171, 173, 175, Vinegar, made from honey, 204. 197, 217.

Thyme, 293, 374, 387.

Tibia, 71, 75, 79.

Tibullus' "Elegies," 279.

Titian, 324.

Titmouse, 169.

Toads, 170, 171.

Toadstone, 354- Toes, 71-73, 140.

Toilet of bees, 153.

Toilet brushes, 76.

Tomtit, 169.

Tongue, 17-34, 154, 176.

Touch organs, 45.

Tracheæ, 63.

Transmigration of souls, 234, 269.

Transportation of queens, 128.

Trigona, 372, 373- "Tryon Bee," 360.

Tulip-tree, 179.

Tulips, 192.

Turkey, 91, 180.

Turpentine, 150.

UNFERTILIZED eggs, 122, 154.

United States, 341, 374; poisonous honey-plants, 192; bee-trees, 165; value of apiarian products, 384.

Urquhart's "Spirit of the Orient," 386.

Uses of honey, 85, 86.

Uses of sting, 90-94.

Usquebach, 222.

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