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Ælian amongst ancient beekeepers apiary apiastrum appears Aristaus Aristotle Aristotle's Armbruster authors bee plants bee stings beekeeping brood bugonia Celsus chap chapter colony Columella combs contains cow-dung Crete deal described disease drones Egypt Egyptian encaustic painting entrance feed flowers follows Geoponica Georgic Greek grubs harvest heather Historia Animalium hives placed honey honey bitter honeycombs hydromel Hyginus Ibid insects Italy keep killed knew known L'Apiculture larvæ leave live mead mellarius mentioned Merula method modern beekeeper mulsum Nicander obtained olive-oil original Palladius passage Pleiades Pliny Pliny's pollen Pontus practical probably produced propolis pseudo-Aristotle queen reed references to bees removed Roman round ruler cells says seems settled skeps smeared smoke Spain spring statement swarm of bees tells Teubner Theophrastus thyme tion trees Varro VIII Virgil wasps whilst wild bees wine wings winter workers xxii young bees