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The honey-bee: its nature, homes and products

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
By William Hetherington Harris
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This work presents a comprehensive natural history and practical manual about honey bees, combining historical references with detailed descriptions of bee life stages, caste roles, and anatomy. It examines the queen, drones, and workers; explains production and handling of honey, mead, wax, pollen, and propolis; and surveys senses, physiology, and common diseases. Practical beekeeping topics include hive types, swarming, feeding, and management, supported by diagrams and illustrations that clarify comb structure, body parts, and equipment. Emphasis balances biological explanation with hands-on advice for bee care and product use.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Fig. PAGE
Comb, Showing Different Kinds of Cells Frontispiece
1. Eggs and Larva of Bees 12
2. Larvæ 13
3. Sealed Cells 14
4. a, Larva full grown, viewed sideways,
b, Larva preparing for Pupa state     		 15
5. Worker Larva and Pupa in Comb 16
6. The Queen of the Hive 19
7. Queen Surrounded by Attendants 20
8. A Drone 29
9. A Worker Bee 35
10. A Worker Bee, showing the Scales of Wax 53
11. Festoons of Bees Suspended from the Roof of the Hive 55
12. Cluster of Bees 58
13. Wax-Worker commencing a Comb 59
14. Diagram of Cells 63
15. Supposed Circular Cells 63
16. Arrangement of Cells 64
17. Diagram showing Slope of Cells 66
18. Arrangement of Combs in a Bell-Glass 68
19. The Queen Cell 69
20. Queen Cells in situ 70
21. Hind-leg of a Bee 73
22. Nervous System of Privet Hawk Moth 81
23. Nervous System of Larva of Bee 82
24. Nervous System of Perfect Insect 83
25. Eyes of a Bee (greatly magnified) 85
26. Facets of Eye of a Bee 86
27. Head of Bee, With Antennæ 98
28. Lower Segments of Hind-leg of Bee, considerably enlarged 110
29. Complete Hind-leg of Bee 110
30. Wing of Bee 112
31. Hooklets of a Bee's Wing 113
32. Abdomen of Bee, showing Respiratory Organs 116
33. Air-sacs of Worker 117
34. a, Air-sacs; b, Ovaries, of the Queen 118
35. a, Tracheæ; b, Elastic Spiral of Tracheæ 119
36. Under Side of Abdomen, showing Wax Scales 121
37. Bee, showing the Wax Scales 121
38. Scales 121
39. Ovaries and Spermatheca of Queen 123
40. Sting of a Bee (greatly magnified) 125
41. Barbs of a Bee's Sting (very highly magnified) 126
42. The Enemies of Bees 141
43. Straw Skep 150
44. Flat-topped Hive and Straw Super 151
45. Neighbour's Improved Cottager's Hive 152
46.           "          "          " 153
47. Modern Hives. Nutt's Collateral Hive in the Foreground 155
48. The Woodbury Hive 157
49. Woodbury Straw Bar-frame Hive 157
50. Cheshire's Bar-frame Hive 159
51. Cheshire's Bar-frame Hive (sectional view) 160
52. Abbott's Standard Frame 161
53.      "            "        (top view) 161
54. Neighbour's Sectional Super (open) 162
55. Frame Super 162
56. Glass Frame Hive, with Super 163
57. Stewarton Hive 165
58. The Carr-Stewarton Hive 167
59. Unicomb Observatory Hive 168
60. A Swarm 173
61. "Tanging" 174
62. Hiving a Swarm 179
63. Swarming Board 192
64. Queen Cage over Sealed Cell 197
65. Inserted Queen Cell 198
66. Bottle Feeder 202
67. Cheshire's Feeding Stage 203
68. Can Feeder 205
69. Round Tin Feeder 205
70. Epilobium Angustifolium. (Young Bloom) 248
71.        "              "              (Old Bloom) 248
72. Cineraria (magnified) 250
73. Tropœolum Majus. (Young Bloom) 252
74.      "            "        (Old Bloom) 252
75. Section of Scrophularia Nodosa 254
76. Scrophularia Nodosa. (Young Bloom) 254
77.        "                "        (Old Bloom) 254
78. Salvia Officinalis. (New Bloom) 255
79.      "            "        (Old Bloom) 255
80. a, Erica Tetralix. b, Anther of Tetralix 255
81. Section of Strawberry Bloom 256
82. Section of Apple Bloom 257

THE HONEY-BEE.

ERRATA.

p. 22, ten lines from bottom, for "not full grown" read "not more than two or three days old."

p. 30, last line but one from the bottom, for "neuters" read "strange workers."

p. 55, line 10 from bottom, for "hind feet" read "pincers on the hind legs."

p. 110, bottom line, for "four anterior tarsi" read "in the hind legs."

p. 111, line 3, for "leg" read "hind leg."

      "    line 6, for "This pocket" read "Above this, on the outside of the tibia, is a pocket, lined, &c."

p. 136, line 12, for "foul-breeding" read "foul-broody."

ADDENDA.

p. 126, three lines from bottom, add

"The most remarkable function of the sting-apparatus has, in modern times, been discovered to be the insertion of a minute drop of the poison in each honey-cell when filled. This acts as an anti-septic, and prevents fermentation in the sweet liquid."

p. 136, after first paragraph, add

"It is now known that this treatment is by no means always successful when the bacilli have reached the "resting" or "spore" stage."

[Note: All above corrections and additions have been applied!]