The Life of the Bee (Classic Reprint)

ON THE THRESHOLD OF' THE HIVE I IT is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping. Excellent works of the kind abound in all civilised countries, and it were useless to attempt another. France has those of Dadant, Georges de La yens and Bonnier, Bertrand, Hamet, Weber, Clement, the Abbe Collin, &c. English-speaking COUlltries have Langstroth, ·Bevan, Cook, Cheshire, Cowan, Root, &c. Germany has Dzierzon, Von Berlepsch, PoHmann, Vogel, and many others. N or is this book to be a scientific monograph on Apis Mellifica, Ligustica, Fasciata, Dorsata, &c., or a collection of new observations and studies. I shall say scarcely anything that those will not know who are 3

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAP PAGE; I ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE HIVE • 3; II THE SWARM • • 31; , III THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY • • 109; IV THE YOUNG QUEEN S x89; V THE NUP'l:1AL FLIGHT 243; VI JrHE 11ASSACRE OF THE ~ALES • · 285; VII THE PROGRESS Dl~ THE RACE • • 299; ApPENDIX • • · 353

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