Bees in America

by Tammy Horn

  Aristotle

  Arizona

  Arnold, George. See also rehabilitation clients

  “Arrival of the Bee Box” (Plath)

  art. See also music; photography; specific authors and titles

  Arthur (monarch of England)

  artificial insemination. See queen rearing

  Asia: American policies and 164; honey exports to; and lost wax art; varroa mite and. See also Japan; Leung Chung.

  Atchley, Jennie

  Austria

  automobiles

  Avedon, Richard, In the West, 202

  B

  back to nature movement

  Bacon, Francis

  barrels

  barter economy: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; seventeenthcentury; twentieth-century

  baseball

  “Beatinest Boy, The” (Stuart)

  beauty. See cosmetics

  Bee Alert Team

  bee and honey house inspectors

  bee caves

  Bee Culture,

  bee gums. See also hives (traditional)

  beehive. See hive

  beehive (metaphor): as social metaphor

  “Beehive, The” (Pastorius)

  beehive beverages

  beehive oven

  Bee Hunting: A Book of Valuable Information for Bee Hunters (Lockard)

  bee industry

  beekeepers: in colonial villages; eighteenth-century; English; nineteenth-century; twentiethcentury; twenty-first-century

  beekeepers’ associations: American Beekeeping Federation; American Honey Producers Association; Kentucky Beekeepers Convention; National Beekeepers Association; National Beekeepers Convention; National Beekeeping Federation; North American Beekeepers Association; National Honey Board; Round Rock Beekeeping Association;

  beekeepers’ periodicals: The Beekeepers Item,; Bee World; Illustrated Beekeepers Journal; Ladies Home Journal,; Mrs. Tupper’s Journal; National Bee Journal; Progressive Bee Culture; The Southland Queen; See also American Bee Journal; Bee Culture; The Beekeepers Item

  beekeeping industry; late twentieth-century; nineteenth-century; twentieth-century. See also apitourism; honey industry; pollination industry; queen and package bee industry

  Beekeeping in Africa (Seyffert)

  Bee-Man of Orn, The (Stockton). See also children’s literature

  “Bee Meeting, The” (Plath)

  bees; immigration of; threats to; westward migration of. See also drones (insect); drones (people); honey hunters; queens (insect); queens (people); small hive beetle; trachael mites; varroa mite; workers (insect); workers (people)

  bees (symbol): eighteenth-century; of freedom; of industry; nineteenth-century; of pain; of stability; of thrift; twentieth-century

  bees, African. See also African honey bees

  bees, Carniolan

  bees, German

  bees, Giant

  bees, Hygenic

  bees, Italian

  bees, New World Carniolans

  bees, quilting

  Bees in the Garden and Honey in the Larder (Coleman)

  bee space

  beeswax: export of; import of; price of; rendering of; use of, in barter; use of, in candles; use of, in comb foundation; use of, in cosmetics; use of, on the frontier; use of, in military; use of, in waterproofing; use of, in lost wax molds

  bee trees; in Honey War; and laws; nineteenth-century; twentiethcentury

  Bee World

  Belgium

  Bell, Horace

  beverages. See also mead

  Biene und Honig im Volksleben der Afrikaner or “Beekeeping in Africa” (Seyffert)

  black beekeepers. See also Africa; music; slavery; Turner, Charles

  Black Migration

  Black Muslim movement

  Blackstone, William

  Blinn, Henry C., (A Sacred Repository of Anthems and Hymns)

  Boggs, Lilburn

  Bonney, Dick

  Book of Bees (Hubbell)

  Borenstein, Seth

  Boston (Mass.)

  Bracht, Viktor

  Braunfels, Prince Carl Solms

  Brazil

  Breininger, Lester

  Bridenbaugh, Carl, Vexed and Troubled Englishmen

  Bromenshank, Jerry

  Brophy, Alfred

  Brown, Kent Masterson

  Bruce, John

  Bruchac, Joseph

  Bruckish, Wilhelm

  Brunson, Hattie

  buildings, use of bees on

  Burroughs, John, “An Idyll of the Honey Bee

  Burt’s Bees

  “Busy Bee” (White)

  “Busy Bee Home Social Club, Louisiana” (Post)

  “Busy Bees of Deseret

  Busy Bees Social Club, Nebraska

  Butler, Charles, A Feminine Monarchie,

  C

  Cabet, Etienne

  Cale, G. H.

  California: early nineteenth-century; late nineteenth-century; early twentieth-century; late twentieth-century

  Camino Real, El

  Camp, Ezell, The Historical Story of Bee County, Texas

  Canaan

  Canada

  Candler, Mathilda

  candles: discussion of, in kandir twentieth-century. See also beeswax

  Cannon, Hal

  Carlos (king of Spain)

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carter, Julian

  Carter Family, Honey in the Rock

  Catholicism

  cattle

  CCC. See Civilian Conservation Corps; Commodity Credit Corporation

  Chalkbrood

  Charles I (king of England)

  Charles II (king of England)

  chemical cures: alternatives to; and foulbrood. See also Terramycin

  chemical weapons

  Chicago (1ll.)

  Children’s literature, nineteenth-century; twentieth century

  Chronicles of White River (Turnbo)

  Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

  Civil War

  clover

  Cobey, Sue

  Cole, Joanna, The Magic Schoolbus: Inside the Beehive

  Coleman, Mary Louise, Bees in the Garden and Honey in the Larder

  Colorado

  comb foundation maker

  Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)

  Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs (Potter)

  Comstock, Anna, Beekeeping for Women

  Comstock, Anthony

  Connecticut

  Continental Congress

  Cooke, George

  Cooper, James Fenimore, The Leatherstocking Tales

  cosmetics

  Costa Rica

  Cotton, John

  Coursing or lining a bee. See also honey hunters

  Crane, Eva: and Archeology of Beekeeping 38; and The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting

  Crane, J. E.

  Crevecoeur, John; Letters from an American Farmer,

  crops; almond orchards; apple orchards; citrus groves. See also clover; weather

  Crosby, Alfred, Ecological Imperialism

  Cyrene

  D

  Dadant, Camille Pierre

  Dadant, Charles; role of, in twentieth century

  Dadant, Maurice George

  Dalton, Jes

  Dancing Bees (Frisch)

  DARPA. See Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency

  Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency

  Demaree, George

  Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) research

  Deseret (now Utah)

  Deseret News

  Des Moines (river)

  Dickinson, Emily

  Diehnelt, Christian

  Diehnelt, Walter

  disease resistance

  DNA research. See deoxyribonucleic acid sequence

  Dobie, J. Frank

  Doolittle, G. M.

  Douglas, George

  Dreyfus, Joyce

  drones (insect); twentieth-centur
y. See also single drone insemination

  drones (people): eighteenth century use of; nineteenth century; seventeenth century; twentieth century

  Dumas, Clark Griffith

  Dutch. See Holland

  Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies (Fabend)

  Dzierzon, Johann

  E

  Eales, John

  Eaton, William

  Eburne, Richard

  Echpalawchund, Peter (chief of Delaware Indians)

  Eckert, J. E.

  Ecological Imperialism (Crane)

  Edison, Carol

  Elizabeth I (queen of England)

  Endicott, John

  England: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; seventeenth-century; twentieth-century

  entomologists

  Equiano, Olaudah, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano

  Erickson, Eric

  Eristalis tenax

  Everyday Life in Early America (Hawke)

  Exodusters

  extension specialists

  extractors

  F

  Fabend, Firth Haring, A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies

  Facing Off (Kupperman)

  Fair and Tender Ladies (Smith)

  Farm Home Administration

  Farm Security Administration (FSA)

  Farr, Sidney Saylor, More Than Moonshine

  Feminine Monarchie, The (Butler)

  feminism

  feudal land practices

  film. See movies

  Finland

  First Battalion

  Flagg, Fannie, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  Florida

  Flottum, Kim

  folklore: announcing death in; aversion to profanity in; informing bees in; ricking in; tall tales in, twentieth-century; washing with beer in;

  Folk Medicine (Jarvis)

  Following the Bloom (Whynott)

  Fonda, Peter

  forager bees

  Forbes, Edwin, “Gone Off With the Yanks

  Ford, Thomas

  Fourier, Charles

  Fourth Kentucky Regiment

  France: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; seventeenthcentury; twentiethcentury

  Franklin, Mary Kay

  freemasons: list of; influence of, on Joseph Smith

  Freneau, Philip Morin, “To a Honey Bee Who Hath Drunk Too Much Wine

  Fried Green Tomatoes (Flagg)

  Fried Green Tomatoes (movie)

  Frisch, Karl von; The Dancing Bees

  FSA. See Farm Security Administration

  G

  Gadsden Purchase

  Garcia, Felipe

  Gary, Norm

  Gaynor, Gloria, “Honey Bee

  George III (king of England)

  Georgia: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; twentieth-century

  Georgics (Virgil)

  Germany: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; seventeenth-century; twentieth-century

  Gershwin, George, “Here Comes De Honey Man

  GI Bill. See Government Issue Bill

  Gibson, Glenn

  Gill, Donald. See also rehabilitation clients

  Gleanings in Bee Culture. See Bee Culture

  globalization

  Goltz, Larry

  “Gone Off With the Yanks” (Forbes)

  Goodall, Edward

  Good Wives (Ulrich)

  Gould, Carol

  Gould, James

  Government Issue Bill

  Graff, Howard

  grafting

  Graham, Joe

  Grand Beehive Exhibit

  Great Depression

  Great Plains (Webb)

  Greece

  H

  Hahman, Frederick

  Hakluyt, Richard

  Hammon, John

  Hand, Wayland

  Harbison, Samuel

  Harbo, John

  Harmonians

  Harris, Jeffrey

  Harris, Joel Chandler, Uncle Remus

  Harrod, James

  Hartlib, Samuel, A Reformed Commonwealth of Bees

  Hawaii

  Hawke, David Freeman, Everyday Life in Early America

  health reform movement

  Heard, Robert

  Heifer Project

  Henderson, Stephen

  “Here Comes De Honey Man” (Gershwin)

  Herridge, Brent

  Hetherington, J. E.

  Heylin, Clinton

  Hiawatha (Longfellow)

  Hine, Lewis, Work That Educates

  Historical Story of Bee County, Texas, The (Camp)

  hive (improved): Bevan; Munn; seventeenth-century English design of

  hive (moveable frame or Langstroth hive); effect on, on industry; need for;. See also Langstroth hive

  hive (traditional): Egyptian; Greco-Roman, log; Shaker; skep; Spanish; See also hiving off; skep hive

  hiving off

  Hobby, Bill

  Hogue, Charles

  Holland: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; seventeenth-century

  honey: and industrialization; use of, in medicines; monetary value of; on the Prairies; in recipes; in sayings; slave memories of; stealing hives of; as sweetener; in tall tales. See also extraction

  honey adulteration

  “Honey Bee” (Gaynor)

  “Honey Bee” (Morganfield)

  “Honey Bee” (Petty)

  “Honey Bee” (Vaughan)

  Honey Bee Act

  Honey Bee Genome Act

  Honey Bee Restriction Act

  honey bees. See bees

  honey hunters; nineteenth-century; twentieth-century

  Honey in the Rock (Carter Family)

  Honey War

  Honl, E. C.

  “How doth the little Busy Bee” (Watts)

  How I Made Money at Home (MacCulloch)

  Hrushka, Fransesco de

  Hubbell, Sue: A Book of Bees; and Honey War; Waiting for Aphrodite;

  Huber, Francois

  Huguenots

  Hultgren, Kathy

  Hultgren, Roger

  Hummer, Billy

  Hummer, Stanley

  Hurt, Daniel

  Hurston, Zora Neale; Their Eyes Were Watching God,

  Hutterites

  hygenic bees

  I

  Icarians

  Idaho

  idle poor

  “Idyll of the Honey Bee” (Burroughs)

  Illinois: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; twentieth-century

  Illustrated Beekeepers Journal

  “I’m a King Bee” (Moore)

  importation: of bees; of honey

  Indiana

  industrialization; nineteenth-century

  Inherit the Wind (Lawrence and Lee)

  instrumental insemination. See queen rearing

  Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

  In the West, (Avedon)

  inventions

  Iowa

  IPM. See Integrated Pest Management

  Ireland

  Irving, Washington: Knickerbocker’s History of the New York; A Tour on the Prairies,

  Italy: antiquity and; seventeenth-century writers and; nineteeth-century

  J

  Jager, Francis

  James, Hunter, (The Quiet People)

  James I (king of England)

  Jamestown: bees and; lethargy and; slaves and

  Japan

  Jarvis, D.C., Folk Medicine

  Jefferson, Thomas: negotiations with Native Americans; Notes on the State of Virginia

  Johnston, Joseph

  Jordan, Terry, The American Backwoods Frontier

  K

  Kansas: arrival of bees in 70; role of, in Civil War; exodusters

  Kaups, Mattie, The American Backwoods Frontier

  Keeper of the Bees (Stratton-Porter)

  Kelley, Ida

  Kelley, Walter

  Kentucky: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; seven-teenth-century; Jesse Stuart and; t
wentieth-century

  Kentucky Shakers (Neal)

  Keokuk (chief of Fox and Sac tribes)

  Kerr, Warwick

  Kiawe. See mesquite

  Kidd, Sue Monk, The Secret Life of Bees

  killer bees. See African honey bees

  Killer Bees (Texas politicians)

  King Bee (misperceptions of drones). See also “I’m a King Bee”

  King’s Highway. See Camino Real

  Kirtland, Jared

  Knickerbocker’s History of the New York (Irving)

  Koehnen, Bob

  Koehnen, Yvonne

  Korean War

  Kritsky, Gene: and African honey bee; and history; and hives

  Krochmal, Arnold

  Krochmal, Connie

  Kupperman, Karen Ordahl: “Apathy and Death at Jamestown; “The Beehive as a Model for Colonial Design; Facing Off

  L

  Ladies Home Journal,

  Laidlaw, Harry, Jr.

  Langstroth, Lorenzo: and bee space; and book; The Hive and the Honey Bee; Italian bees and; in patent dispute; in twentieth century

  Langstroth hive;; effect of, on new industry

  Latter-day Saints (Church of Jesus Christ), nineteenth-century; twentieth-century

  Lawrence, Jerome, Inherit the Wind

  laws: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century, twentieth-century

  Leatherstocking Tales, The (Cooper)

  Ledbetter, Huddie “Leadbelly

  Lee, Robert E., Inherit the Wind

  Lee, Russell, San Antonio Honey Peddler

  Lehman, Kim

  Lesher, Charles

  LeStourgeon, E. G.

  Lesueur, Charles Alexander

  Leung Chung

  Levitt, William

  Lewis, Meriwether

  Lewis and Clark Expedition

  Linebaugh, Peter, The Many-Headed Hydra

  Linswik, Cyula

  Lockard, John, Bee Hunting: A Book of Valuable Information for Bee Hunters

  London Company

  “Lonesome Valley” (slave spiritual)

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, The Song of Hiawatha

  Los Angeles (Calif.)

  lost wax molds

  Louisiana: eighteenth-century; nineteenth- century; twentieth-century; twenty-first-century

  Lucas, Robert

  M

  MacCulloch, Hunter, How I Made Money at Home

  Mackensen, Otto

  Magic Schoolbus: Inside the Beehive (Cole)

  Maine

  Mairson, Alan

  Mangum, Wyatt

  Many-Headed Hydra (Linebaugh and Rediker)

  Maryland

  Mason, Philip

  Massachusetts: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; seventeenth-century; twentieth-century

  McCain, J. N.