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A guard is constantly at the entrance of the hive 123
What ensues when bees lose their queen 126
Effects of introducing a stranger queen 128
Massacre of the males 132
It never ensues in hives deprived of queens 135
A plurality of queens is never tolerated 142
The queen bee is oviparous 149
Bees seem occasionally to repose 150
Interval between production of the egg and the perfect state
of bees 151
Mode of spinning the coccoon 153
That of the queen is open at one end 154
The size of the bees is not affected by that of the cells 167
The old queen always conducts the first swarm 173
But never before depositing eggs in the royal cells 177
Singular effect of a sound emitted by perfect queens 189
The instinct of bees is affected during the period of swarming 208
Queens are liberated from their cells according to their age 214
The bees probably judge of this by the sound emitted 217
Young queens conducting swarms are virgins 221
The conduct of bees to old queens is peculiar 224
Retarded impregnation affects the instinct of queens 241
Amputation of the antennae produces singular effects 245
Advantages of the leaf hive 253
It renders the bees tractable 256
They may there be forced to work in wax 264
Uniform distance between the combs 265
Natural heat of bees 269
Distance to which they fly 271
Appendix 273
Anatomical observations on the sexual organs of bees 276
Experiments proving the copulation of the queen 290

ALEX. SMELLIE, Printer.

{Transcriber's notes

The spelling in the original is sometimes idiosyncratic. It has not
been changed, but a few obvious errors h