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  McKinley, Daniel

  mead. See also beverages

  Medina Honey Fest

  Mehring, Johannes

  Mendelson, M. H

  Mennonites

  Merrick, Jeffrey

  mesquite

  Metcalf, Eva-Maria

  metheglin. See mead

  Mexican War

  Mexico

  Meyer, A. H.

  Michigan

  Middleton Place

  migratory beekeeping: nineteenth-century; twentieth-century

  Millen, F. Eric

  Miller, C. C.

  Miller, Jay

  Miller, John

  Miller, Nephi

  Miller, Rita

  Miller, Woodrow

  Minnesota

  Mississippi (river)

  Mississippi (state): during Civil War; twentieth-century blacks and; twenty-first-century; women in

  Missouri (state), bee hunts

  Mitchell family

  mites. See also trachael mites; varroa mites

  Moffett, Joseph

  molasses. See sugar

  Montana

  Moore, James “Slim Harpo; “I’m a King Bee

  Moravians

  More Than Moonshine (Farr)

  Morgan, Robert, “Moving the Bees

  Morgan, Rufus

  Morganfield, McKinley “Muddy Waters; “Honey Bee

  Morman Centennial. See also Latter-day Saints

  Mormons. See Latter-day Saints

  Morrison, Van, “Tupelo Honey

  Morse, Ephraim

  Morse, Roger

  Morton, Jelly Roll

  Morton, Thomas

  Mountain, Robin

  moveable frame, description of

  movies

  “Moving the Bees” (Morgan)

  Mrs. Tupper’s Journal

  music; blues; gospel; Mormon songs; rock‘n’roll; Shaker hymns; spirituals

  Mussen, Eric

  myths

  N

  Naeglin, Edouard

  Naile, Florence, America’s Master of Bee Culture

  Nakrani, Sunil

  Nantucket (Mass.)

  National Bee Journal

  National Honey Board

  Native Americans; Algonquian tribes; Apache; Caddo; Cherokee; Choctaw; Comanche; Delaware; Dutch and Finno-Swedes; Iroquois; Thomas Jefferson and; Ojibwa; Osage; Pequot tribes; Plains Indians; Shawnee; Sioux;

  Natural History (Pliny)

  Neal, Julia, The Kentucky Shakers

  Nebraska

  nectar

  Nelson, Eric

  Nevada

  New Amsterdam, See Holland

  Newbury (Mass.)

  New Hampshire

  New Harmony

  New Jersey

  New Mexico

  New Netherlands. See Holland

  newspapers: Deseret News (Utah) 94; Arizona Citizen; Arizona Daily Star; Boston Gazette (Mass.) 59; Boston Patriot (Mass.); Pittsburgh Leader (Pa.); Somerville, Ala., Falcon; Louisville Courier-Journal (Ky.); Gridley, (Colo.) Herald; New York Tribune; Washington Star

  New York (city)

  New York (state): folklore, slaves in 49; nineteenth-century

  New World; eighteenth-century

  New World Carniolans

  North Carolina; nineteenth-century

  North Dakota

  Norway

  numbers (Bible verse)

  Nunez, Victor, Ulee’s Gold,

  nursery rhymes

  Nuttall, Thomas

  O

  Oertel, Everett

  Ohio: early nineteenth-century; eighteenth-century; late twentieth-century

  Ohio Frontier (Hurt)

  Oklahoma

  One Hundred and Third Illinois

  One Hundred and Thirty-second Pennsylvania Infantry

  orchards. See crops

  Oregon

  overwintering

  Owen, Robert

  P

  package bee industry. See also bee industry; queen rearing

  Page, Robert, Jr.

  Park, O. W.

  Pastorius, Francis Daniel

  Peabody, Erin

  Peace Corps

  Pellett, Frank-63; History of American Beekeep-ing

  Pellett, Kent Louis

  Pendall, David

  Penn, William

  Penncap-M. See pesticides

  Pennsylvania: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; seventeenth-century;

  pesticides

  Petty, Tom, “Honey Bee

  Phillips, E. F.

  photography,

  pilgrims

  Plath, Sylvia, Ariel,

  Pliny, Natural History

  Plymouth

  poison. See pesticides

  politicians

  Politics and Ideas in Early Stuart England (Sharpe)

  pollen, and discussion of North American plants

  pollination industry

  portable extraction units. See also extractors

  Post, Marion; “Busy Bee Home Social Club

  Potter, Stephen, Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs

  poverty: causes of, in seventeenth-century England; in seventeenth-century America; in nineteenth century; in twentieth century

  Powers, Irvin

  Powhatan (chief of Algonquian empire)

  Pratz, Antoine Le Page du

  Prete, Frederick

  Price Support System

  Progressive Bee Culture

  progressivism

  Proteus

  Puerto Rico

  Pure Food Act of 1906

  Puritans

  Q

  Quakers: seventeenth-century; role of, in American Revolution; Quinby;

  quarantines

  queen bees (insect). See also queen rearing

  queen bees (people)

  queen breeding. See queen rearing

  queen rearing: nineteenth-century; twentieth-century

  quilting bees

  Quimby, Roxanne

  Quinby, Moses

  Quinn-Laidlaw system

  R

  radio

  Rains, Euclid

  railroads: early nineteenth-century; late nineteenth-century,

  Ramsey, Ralph

  rations

  Raylor, Timothy

  Reagon, Bernice, Sweet Honey in the Rock

  Rediker, Marcus, Many-Headed Hydra

  Reformed Commonwealth of Bees, The (Hartlib)

  rehabilitation clients

  religion: Amish; Catholicism; Church of England; Congregationalists; Dutch Reformed Church; French Huguenots; Hutterites; Judaism; Latter-day Saints; Lutherans; Mennonites; Moravians; Pilgrims; Puritans; Quakers; Shakers; See also candles; lost wax molds

  Revkin, Andrew

  Revue Internationale d’Apiculture

  Rio Grande (river)

  Robinson, Gene

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Root, A. I.: ABC & XYZ of Bee Culture; role of, in twentieth

  Root, Ernest

  Root, Huber

  Root, John

  Rothstein, Arthur

  Roughing It (Twain)

  Roulette, William

  round dance

  Rowe, Mike

  Russia

  S

  Sachs, William

  Salt Lake City (Utah)

  San Antonio Honey Peddler (Lee)

  “Saving the Bees” (Stuart)

  Scott, Howard

  Secret Life of Bees, The (Kidd)

  Serra, Junipero

  Seventy-second Pennsylvania Fire Zouve

  Sevin. See pesticides

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

  Shakers

  Sharpe, Kevin, Politics and Ideas in Early Stuart England

  ships; factor in wax moth; Mayflower,; Phoenix; Sea Venture; Sonora

  Shoemaker, Eugene

  Showler, Karl

  Simpson, Jason

  single drone insemination
/>   Sioux Bee Honey Association

  skeps: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; 105; seventeenth-century; twentieth-century; twenty-first-century

  slavery: in eighteenth-century; in nineteenth-century; in seventeenth century

  small hive beetle

  Smith, Joseph

  Smith, Lee, Fair and Tender Ladies 45

  Smithsonian Renwick Gallery

  smoker

  SMR. See suppressed mite reproduction

  Snelgrove’s bee hive ice cream

  social reforms

  “Song of the Queen Bee” (White)

  South Carolina:

  South Dakota

  Southland Queen

  Spain

  Sparks, Bonnie

  Spivak, Marla

  Stechelhausen, L.

  Stegner, Wallace, Mormon Country

  Stevenson, Charlotte

  Stockton, Frank, The Bee-Man of Orn

  Stoll, Steven: The Fruits of Natural Advantage; Larding the Lean Earth

  Stratton-Porter, Gene, The Keeper of the Bees,

  Street, O. D.

  Stryker, Roy

  Stuart, Jesse: “The Beatinest Boy 13; “Saving the Bees

  Stuyvesant, Peter

  suburbs

  sugar: eighteenth-century; nineteenth-century; twentieth-century; seventeenth-century; twentieth century use of

  Sugden, Evan

  sulfa drugs

  supressed mite reproduction (SMR)

  Swarm, The (Allen)

  swarms (insects): in seventeenth century; in nineteenth century; in twentieth century. See also folklore

  swarms (people)

  Sweden, seventeenth-century

  Sweet Honey in the Rock

  Switzerland

  Szabo, Daniel

  Szabo, Tibor

  T

  tall tales. See folklore

  tanging. See folklore

  taxes

  Tennessee

  Terramycin

  Texas; in Civil War; German and Irish migration to; as a republic; statehood of; tall tales about; twentieth-century; women in

  Texas State Beekeepers Association

  Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)

  “To a Honey Bee Who Hath Drunk Too Much Wine” (Freneau)

  Tontz, Clay

  Tour on the Prairies (Irving)

  Tovey, Craig

  trachael mites

  trains. See railroads

  “Tupelo Honey” (Morrison)

  Tupper, Ellen

  Turnbo, Silas, White River Chronicles

  Turner, Charles H.

  Twain, Mark, Roughing It

  U

  Ulee’s Gold (Nunez)

  Ulloa, Antonio de

  Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, Good Wives

  Uncle Remus (Harris)

  United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearance. See Shakers

  United States Department of Agriculture

  (USDA)

  unknown transfer of ownership of hives

  Unser, Daniel, Jr.

  USDA. See United States Department of Agriculture

  Utah: nineteenth-century; twentieth-century

  Utopian communities. See Harmonians; Icarians; Latter-day Saints; New Harmony; Shakers

  V

  varroa mites

  Vaughan, Stevie Ray, “Honey Bee

  Veterans

  Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, (Bridenbaugh)

  Vietnam War

  Virgil: Aeneid; influence of, on American agrarian philosophy

  Virginia; twentieth-century

  Virginia Company

  W

  waggle dance

  Wagner, Samuel: imports and; and ABJ

  Waiting for Aphrodite (Hubbell)

  Walker, Larry

  war. See American Revolution; Civil War; Honey War; Korean War; Mexican War; Vietnam War; World War I; World War II

  War Procurement Board

  Washington (state)

  Washington, Booker T.

  Washington, D.C.

  Washington, George

  Washington, Margaret (scholar)

  Washington, Margaret Murray (wife of Booker T)

  Washington, Martha

  Waters, Muddy, “Honey Bee

  Watts, Isaac, “How Doth the little Busy Bee

  wax. See beeswax

  wax moth

  weather: El Nino; experiments with bees; in seventeenth century England; twentieth-century;

  Webb, Walter Prescott, The Great Plains

  Webster, Tom

  Welsch, Roger

  West India Company

  White, Anna, “Busy Bee

  White, E.B., “Song of the Queen Bee

  White River Chronicles of Silas Turnbo (Keefe and Morrow, eds.)

  Whynott, Douglas, Following the Bloom

  Wilson, Bill

  Winthrop, John

  Wisconsin

  Withington, Ann

  women: in early twentieth century; in eighteenth century; in late twentieth century; in nineteenth century; in seventeenth century;

  Wood, William

  worker bees (insect)

  worker bees (people)

  Works Progress Adminstration (WPA)

  World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting (Crane); colonical practices, description of lost wax molds; discussion of African beekeeping; forests

  World War I

  World War II

  WPA. See Works Progress Administration

  Wright, Richard

  Y

  YMCA. See Young Men’s Christian Association

  Young, Brigham

  Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)

  Z

  Zeisberger, David

  Zinzendorf, Ludwig von