A Practical Treatise On The Management Of Bees PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... ANALYTICAL INDEX. Natural history of the bee indispensable to those who desire to cultivate them in a systematic. method-----5 Other insects display instinctive powers no less extraordinary than bees--5 Perfection and symmetry of their bodies, description of the bee, their antennas, the organs of sensation. When deprived of these, there instinctive powers are lost---6 Every hive or colony contains three kinds of bees. Females, males or drones, and workers or neuters-----7 Sting of the bee described; Queen bee described 8 Government of bees termed republican, although it resembles more the monarchical--9 Bees are propagated by means of eggs, which are hatched into worms---10 Swammerdam on the propagation of bees; Hattorfs experiments evince great aversion of queens to drones.-'---11 Huber's numerous experiments prove, that the gen-eration of bees is effected by the union of the sexes--.---12 It is not in the interior of the hive, but high in the air, that it takes place---13 Forty six hours after impregnation, the queen be-gins laying eggs, which will become workers; Huish's Opinion --13 The laying of a queen is retarded, or altogether interrupted by cold 14 A single impregnation is sufficient for all the eggs which a queen will lay in two years; remark-able prolific powers of queens; the three kinds of bees have cells peculiarly adapted to each; the different cells described--14, 15 The eggs of all the three kinds of bees are hatch-ed in three days; the queen comes to perfection in sixteen days; food is carried by the bees to the worms as they require it; the first eggs, in the natural state of the queen, are those of work-ers; next are those of males--15 Disastrous consequences resulting from the loss of a queen-16 Bees have the...