Hexagonal Principle in Hive, 134 Hive, Division of Labour in, 83 life, System and Order in, 128 Preparation for Winter, 253 Hiving Swarms, 182 Honey as Hair-restorer, 45 a Manufactured Product, 222 and Sugar: Comparative Values as Food, 259 “Honey-bearing Reed,” 23 Honey-bee, Origin of, 78 bees, Varying Intelligence of, 143 bee’s Year, Beginning of, 84 comb, Construction of, 137 crops, 226 dew, 226 flow, Duration of, 95, 221 from the Skies, 5 Imports, 258 in Mediæval Cookery, 23 In Middle Ages, 24 Medicinal Properties of, 44, 260 Preparation of, for Market, 273 Huber’s Leaf-hive, 30 I Ideal Hive, The, 265 Infant Mortality in Bee-life, 63 Insects: Reasons for Bodily Construction, 158 Isle of Honey, 18, 22 Italian Bee, 77 J Jaws of Bee, Construction of, 154 L Larva-cocoons, Differences in 138 Larva, Hatching of, 72 Laying Queen’s Attendants, 107 Legs of Bee, 149 Life of the Hive, 54 of the Queen, 119 Longevity of Bee, 15 M Master-Bees, 42 Matriarchy in the Hive, xiii Mead: Ancient Recipe, 26 in Anglo-Saxon Times, 24, 25 like Canary-sack, 27 making, Modern, 26 Modern Bee-culture: Its Infuence on Bee-life, 190 Hive, Capacity of, 95 Morat, 25 Moses Rusden, King’s Bee-Master, 31 N Nectar: Temperature required for its Secretion, 228 Night in the Bee-Garden, 60 Nursery-work in the Hive, 71 O Oil of Wax, 45 Old Bee-garden, 51 Overseers in Hive, 64 Oxen-born Bees, 7 Oxymel, 44 P Parthenogenesis, 105, 122 Pigment, 25 Pliny and the Bee, 11 Pliny’s Mirror-stone Hive, 30 Poison-sac of Bee: Its Contents, 223 Pollen from Evening Primrose, 34 gathering, 32, 55 loads, Homogeneity of, 57 Sources of, 56 Prehistoric Man and Honey-Bee, x Propolis: Its Nature and Uses, 57, 204 Q Queen and Worker: Differences in Bodily Structure, 101 Eggs, Identity of, 100 Queen-bee, 34, 41, 68, 71, 86 Apparent Rulership of, 96 Battle-cry of, 166, 193 Death of, 115 Duration of Life, 255 Fecundity of, 72 Fertilisation of, 121 Hatching of, 113 Her Mating-flight, 72, 117 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 Queenless Hives, 105, 144 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 Robber-bees, 144, 250 S