The Life of the Bee - BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK - 1901 - Contents - I. ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE HIVE 3 11. THE SWARM . . . . . . . 3 7 111. THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY . 131 IV. THE LIFE OF THE BEE . . . . 159 V. THE YOUNG QUEENS . . . . 233 VI. THE NUPTIAL FLIGHT . . . . 295 VII. THE MASSACRE OF THE MALES . 347 VIII. THE PROGRESS OF THE RACE. . . 363 ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE HIVE - IT is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practica bee-keeping. Excellent works of thc kind abound in all civilised countries, and it were useless to attempt another. France has those of Dadant, Georges de Layens and Bonnier, Bertrand, Hamet, Weber, Clement, the Abbi Collin, etc. English-speaking cou ntries have Langstroth, Bevan, Cook, Cheshire, Cowan, Root, etc. Germany has Dzierzon, Van Berlespoch, Pollmann, Vogel, and many others.................