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Presents......
New Observations on the Natural History of Bees
By Francis Huber 1806
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CONTENTS.
- LETTER 1.—On the impregnation of the queen bee
- LETTER 2.—Sequel of observations on the impregnation of the queen bee
- LETTER 3.—The same subject continued; observations on retarding the
fecundation of queens
- LETTER 4.—On M. Schirach's discovery
- LETTER 5.—Experiments proving that there are sometimes common
bees which lay fertile eggs
- LETTER 6.—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
- LETTER 7.—Sequel of observations on the reception of a stranger queen;
M. de Reaumur's observations on the subject
- LETTER 8.—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
- LETTER 9.—On the formation of swarms
- LETTER 10.—The same subject continued
- LETTER 11.—The same subject continued
- LETTER 12.—Additional observations on queens that lay only the eggs of
drones, and on those deprived of the antennæ
- LETTER 13.—Economical considerations on bees
- Appendix
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