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Valhalla, 211, 212, 213

Value of apiarian products in the United States, 384.

Violets, 201, 202.

Viper's bugloss, 178, 180. (See Blue thistle.) Virgil, 37, 267, 269, 279, 293, 311, 313; Aristœus' bees, 271, 272; battle of bees, 126; bees as weather prophets, 352; coming of AEneas, 285; on drone, 129; on immortality of bee, 272; on love for queen, 119; on origin of bees, 116; on sacrificial bull, 249; on stinging, 103; on voice of bees, 65; the Golden Age, 266; to retain swarm, 162; Æneid, 279, 285, 311; Bucolics, 65, 266, 267, 293; Georgic I., 269; Georgic IV., 103, 116, 119, 126, 249, 271, 272, 291, 352.

Virgin Mary, 324, 327.

Vishnu, 231.

Vocal mechanism, 63, 64.

Voices of bees, 63, 64.

Volition of insects, 38.

WALES, 181, 217, 218.

Wallachian legend, 335.

Waltersdorf's hymn, 323.

Wasps, 14, 194.

Waste, ejection of, 84, 151, 152.

Water, 149, 179.

Watts, 347.

Wax, 12, 70, 251, 270, 314; altar, 325; American wax, 88; amount of honey used for, 87, 141; ancient uses, 318; artificial, 87; as a cure, 87, 88, 333; black, 88, 187, 188, 318, 373, 381; candles, 88, 319, 325, 370, 373; caps on cells, 124; colored, 188, 318, 373; Index cement, 150; consistency of, 142; | Willow honey, 148, 177destroyed by moths, 173; flowers and fruit, 314, 315; for embalming, 253, 254; for shepherd's pipe, 295; for superstitious uses, 330, 331, 332, 333, 339; images, 315, 316, 317, 329, 333; jaws, 79, 87; masks, 315; of Apis Dorsata, 366; origin of, 86; pockets, 86, 87, 141; production, 140, 141; scales, 141, 142; tablets, 88; tribute to Romans, 190; uses of, 87, 88; violet, 373; wax-moth, 173, 174; wreaths, 315.

West Chester, 192.

West Indies, 370.

Westphalia, 342.

White man's fly, 165, 250, 378.

White's "Natural History of Selborne," 174, 197.

Whittier, 339.

Wild bees, 165, 169.

Wildman, 104, 185, 356, 357.

Wild roses, 37.

Wilkes's Club, 194.

Wing music, 62; of drones, 136.

Wings, 13, 44, 57-69, 152, 153; of drones, 132; of queen, 118, 160.

Wisdom of bee, 54.

Woodpecker, 170.

Work, bees' love for, 137; done by young bees, 138; by moonlight, 152, 178.

Worker, 137-158; cells of, 121, 214; deprived of antennæ, 45; honey-sac, 81, 82, 83; larva of, 124; silk glands, 124; structure, 114; wax pockets, 86, 87.

Worms, 122. (See Larvæ.)