Volume 1
A treatise on the nature, economy, and practical management of bees / [Robert Huish].
- Robert Huish
- Date:
- 1817
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the nature, economy, and practical management of bees / [Robert Huish]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![e PRACTICAL TREATISE ON BEES. CHAP. I. ON BEES IN GENERAL. ] SHALL -not here give a.description of the dif. ferent species of Bees, which the Author of Nature has disseminated throughout Creation; the only question is of those which we cultivate, and the produce of which ought to form one of the principal -branches of our rural. economy ; the others belong more properly to entomological science, which has already been ably investigated by Reaumur, and other skilful naturalists. | | The common Bee, or Honey Fly, is an insect of the species of; the fly with four wings. This fly is of the number of those who live in association. Man has subjected them to his dominion, in order _ to profit by their labour; . and) .he: has assembled](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33292140_0001_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
