ANALYTICAL INDEX.
Reading edition
Description of a hive invented by the author page 4
Swammerdam's opinion on the fecundation of bees 8
Sentiments of M. de Reaumur 10
Mr Debraw's opinion 11
Hattorf's opinion 19
Difficulty of discovering the mode of impregnation 22
Experiments on the subject 23
Suggestions by M. Bonnet 34
The queen is impregnated by copulation, which never takes place within the hive 41
Experiments on artificial fecundation have not succeeded 42
The male loses the sexual organs in copulation 43
Regarded impregnation affects the ovaries of the queen 45
She then lays no eggs but those producing males 47
One copulation impregnates all the eggs the queen will lay in two years 54
Fecundity of a queen 63
Common bees do not transport the queen's eggs 66
They sometimes eat them 69
Eggs producing males are sometimes laid in royal cells 71
Common worms may be converted into queens 77
Operations of the bees when this is done 78
Fertile workers sometimes exist 89
They lay none but the eggs of males 96
All common bees are originally females 98
Receiving the royal food while larvæ, expands their ovaries 105
Mutual enmity of queens 110
The common bees seem to promote their combats 117
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 antennæ 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
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