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New Observations on the Natural History of Bees

New Observations on the Natural History of Bees

by François Huber

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Author
Huber, François, 1750-1831
Title
New observations on the natural history of bees
Credits
Produced by Louise Pryor, Steven Giacomelli and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images produced by Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA), Cornell University)
Language
English
LoC Class
QL: Science: Zoology
Subject
Bees
Category
Text
eBook-No.
26457
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26457
Release Date
August 28, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Transcriber's note — NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES, BY FRANCIS HUBER. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL.
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
  4. 4.LETTER I. ON THE IMPREGNATION OF THE QUEEN BEE. — Letter from M. Bonnet to M. Huber.
  5. 5.LETTER II. SEQUEL OF OBSERVATIONS ON THE IMPREGNATION OF THE QUEEN BEE.
  6. 6.LETTER III. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.—OBSERVATIONS ON RETARDING THE FECUNDATION OF QUEENS.
  7. 7.LETTER IV. ON M. SCHIRACH'S DISCOVERY.
  8. 8.LETTER V. EXPERIMENTS PROVING THAT THERE ARE SOMETIMES COMMON BEES WHICH LAY FERTILE EGGS.
  9. 9.LETTER VI. ON THE COMBATS OF QUEENS: THE MASSACRE OF THE MALES: AND WHAT SUCCEEDS IN A HIVE WHERE A STRANGER QUEEN IS SUBSTITUTED FOR THE NATURAL ONE.
  10. 10.LETTER VII. SEQUEL OF EXPERIMENTS ON THE RECEPTION OF A STRANGER QUEEN. M. DE REAUMUR'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE SUBJECT.
  11. 11.LETTER VIII. IS THE QUEEN OVIPAROUS? WHAT INFLUENCE HAS THE SIZE OF THE CELLS, WHERE THE EGGS ARE DEPOSITED, ON THE BEES PRODUCED?—RESEARCHES ON THE MODE OF SPINNING THE COCCOONS.
  12. 12.LETTER IX. ON THE FORMATION OF SWARMS.
  13. 13.LETTER X. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
  14. 14.LETTER XI. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
  15. 15.LETTER XII. ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON QUEENS THAT LAY ONLY THE EGGS OF DRONES, AND ON THOSE DEPRIVED OF THE ANTENNÆ.
  16. 16.LETTER XIII. ECONOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON BEES.
  17. 17.APPENDIX.
  18. 18.ANALYTICAL INDEX. — Transcriber's notes

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