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  Root, A. I. “Our Latest Intelligence Corner.” Bee Culture 2, no. 3 (1874): 35.

  Root, A. I. “She Will Be Here Today!” Bee Culture 3, no. 12 (1875): 149.

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  Permission is gratefully acknowledged for the following:

  Fourth and seventh stanzas from “The Arrival of the Bee Box” from Ariel by Sylvia Plath. Copyright 1963 by Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. and Faber and Faber Ltd.

  Excerpt from “The Beatinest Boy” by Jesse Stuart, copyright 1980. Used by permission of Jesse Stuart Foundation.

  Excerpt from A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell. Copyright 1988 by Sue Hubbell. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

  Excerpt from Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg, copyright 1987 by Fannie Flagg. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

  Excerpt from “Honeybee” written by Melvin Steals, Mervin Steals, and Matt Ledbetter. Performed by Gloria Gaynor. Copyright 1973 (renewed 2001). Used by permission of EMI Sosaha Music, Inc. and Jonathan Three Music.

  Excerpt from “Honey Bee” written by Muddy Waters, copyright 1959, 1987 Watertoons (BMI)/Admmistered by BUG. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

  Excerpt from “Honey Bee” written by Stevie Ray Vaughan, copyright 1985 Ray Vaughan Music (ASCAP)/Administered by BUG. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

  Excerpt from “Honey Bee” by Tom Petty, copyright 1994 Gone Gator Music (ASCAP). Administered by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Used by Permission of Warner Brothers Publications, U.S., Inc., Miami, FL 33014.

  “I’m a King Bee.” Words and music by James H. ‘Slim Harpo’ Moore. Copyright 1957 (renewed) by Embassy Music Corporation (BMI). International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

  Excerpt from “Moving the Bees” from Sigodlin: Poems by Robert Morgan. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.

  Excerpt from The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, copyright 2002 by Sue Monk Kidd. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

  Excerpt from “Song of the Queen Bee” by E. B. White. Reprinted by permission; copyright E. B. White. Originally published in The New Yorker. All rights reserved.

  Quotes from Chapters 2 and 20 from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Copyright 1937 by Harper & Row, Inc.; renewed copyright 1965 by John C. Hurston and Joel Hurston. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc and Time Warner Book Group UK.

  Excerpt from the screenplay of Ulee’s Gold used by permission of Victor Nunez.

  Excerpt from Waiting for Aphrodite: Journey into the Time Before Bones by Sue Hubbell. Copyright 1999 by Sue Hubbel
l. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

  Stanzas one, nine, and ten from “Wintering” from Ariel by Sylvia Plath. Copyright 1963 by Ted Hughes. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd.

  INDEX

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  References to figures are in boldface type.

  A

  ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture (Root)

  ABJ. See American Bee Journal

  Abramson, Charles

  Adams, John

  Adee, Richard

  advertisements; and beehive beverages; blacks and Native Americans in; use of Hopalong Cassidy in

  Aeneid (Virgil)

  AFB. See American foulbrood

  Africa

  African honey bee trap line

  African Honey Bee Information Team

  African honey bee (AHB)

  AHB. See African honey bee.

  Alabama

  Alaska

  Albert I (king of Belgium)

  Alexander I (king of Yugoslavia)

  “All Are Talking of Utah,”

  Allen, Irwin, The Swarm,

  Almond Board of California

  almonds: orchards; and pollination industry. See also crops

  American Backwoods Frontier, The (Jordan and Kaups)

  American Bee Journal (ABJ)

  American foulbrood (AFB):; description by Hubbell; twentieth-century

  American Revolution

  American values

  America’s Master of Bee Culture (Naile)

  Amerman, Helen Adams

  Amish

  apiaries

  apitherapy

  apitourism

  Appalachia; nineteenth-century; twentieth-century

  apple orchards; and pollination industry. See also beekeeping industry; crops;

  pollination industry

  Ariel (Plath)

  Aristaeus. See also myths