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 Impulse, 96, 175 Objects of, 189 Signs of, 182 T Temper in Bees, 219 Temperature of Hive, 91, 161 Tongue of Bee, Construction of, 152 U Undertakers in Hive, 63 V Variation in Hive-rules, 94 Ventilation of Hive, 60, 91 Virgil as Bee-master, 2 Voice-apparatus of Bee, 163 W Wax, 15, 198 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 Worker-bee, 81, 85, 233 Age of, 85, 254 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 * * * * * PRINTED BY BILLING AND SONS, LTD. GUILDFORD FOOTNOTE. {218} Dr. Herbert MacDonald Phillpotts, of Kingswear, Devon.