Q
Queen and Worker: Differences in Bodily Structure, 101
Eggs, Identity of, 100
Apparent Rulership of, 96
Death of, 115
Duration of Life, 255
Fecundity of, 72
Fertilisation of, 121
Hatching of, 113
in Swarming-time, 178
Physiology of, 101
Rearing of, 103
Supersession of, 109
the Original Female Bee, 98
Workers’ Management of, 123
cell, Construction of, 100, 110
larva Feeding of, 113
Rearing of, 99
Queens: Five in Single Hive, 96
Mutual Antagonism, 114
Plurality of, in Hive, 94
R
Reason and Instinct, 69
“Ringing the Bees,” Roman Origin of, 38
S
Samson and the Lion, 11
Sanitation in the Hive, 88
Sexes, Proportion of, in Hive, 124
Sex-question in Hive, xvi
Sirius, the Honey-Star, 13
Skep, Ancient Method of Dressing, 37
Small-holder and Bee-keeping, 259
Socialism and Hive-life, 75, 130
Soot-fungus, 229
Sororicide in the Hive, 120
Sources of Honey, 230
Sting of Bee, Construction of, 170
Sugar-cane, First Introduction of, 23
Swarm-hiving, First Century, 5
in Middle Ages, 37
Swarm in May, 174
Legal Rights in, 40
Site selected by, 185
Swarming, 38
Objects of, 189
Signs of, 182
T
Temper in Bees, 219
Tongue of Bee, Construction of, 152
U
Undertakers in Hive, 63
V
Variation in Hive-rules, 94
Virgil as Bee-master, 2
Voice-apparatus of Bee, 163
W
Ancient Sources of, 16
Bees’ Method of Working, 201
in the Bronze Age, xi
Medicinal Properties of, 44
making, Food Consumed during, 161
production, a Profitable Industry, 266
Water, Need of, in Hive, 84
Winter-feeding, Method of, 86
life in Hive, 86
Artificial Creation of, 130
Birth of, 140
Early Life in Hive, 141
Glandular System of, 142
Supremacy of, in Hive, 68
Various Occupations of, 127
larvæ, Feeding of, 131
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[218] Dr. Herbert MacDonald Phillpotts, of Kingswear, Devon.