The honey bee [by T. James].1852 |
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... queen - bee 10 Mission to New Zealand .... 54 Situation of hive 11 First introduction of bees Bee - flowers 14 there 56 Hymettus 16 Commercial value of wax Pasturage 18 and honey 57 Transportation of hives 20 .... Bee - keeping 59 ...
... queen - bee 10 Mission to New Zealand .... 54 Situation of hive 11 First introduction of bees Bee - flowers 14 there 56 Hymettus 16 Commercial value of wax Pasturage 18 and honey 57 Transportation of hives 20 .... Bee - keeping 59 ...
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... Queen and two Princesses ( of the hive ) are the performers , the young ladies earnestly begging to be allowed to take an airing , while the old duenna as determinedly refuses . This apiarian " Pray , goody , please to moderate " grows ...
... Queen and two Princesses ( of the hive ) are the performers , the young ladies earnestly begging to be allowed to take an airing , while the old duenna as determinedly refuses . This apiarian " Pray , goody , please to moderate " grows ...
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... queen - bee . The number of workers in a strong hive is above 15,000 , and of drones about one to ten of these . This proportion , though seldom exact , is never very much exceeded or fallen short of . A single family , where swarming ...
... queen - bee . The number of workers in a strong hive is above 15,000 , and of drones about one to ten of these . This proportion , though seldom exact , is never very much exceeded or fallen short of . A single family , where swarming ...
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... queen takes her hymeneal flight she may be sure to meet with some in the upper regions of the air . Her embrace is said to be fatal . " By this time your bees sit . " - Evelyn's Calendar for March . " When it has deposited the eggs , it ...
... queen takes her hymeneal flight she may be sure to meet with some in the upper regions of the air . Her embrace is said to be fatal . " By this time your bees sit . " - Evelyn's Calendar for March . " When it has deposited the eggs , it ...
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... Queen - bee . Her power was acknow- ledged before her sex was known , for Greeks , Latins , and Arabs always style her " the king ; " * and it may be thought an argument in favour of monarchical government , that the " tyrant - quelling ...
... Queen - bee . Her power was acknow- ledged before her sex was known , for Greeks , Latins , and Arabs always style her " the king ; " * and it may be thought an argument in favour of monarchical government , that the " tyrant - quelling ...
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Página 97 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Página 94 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge ? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Página 7 - A bee amongst the flowers in spring, is one of the most cheerful objects that can be looked upon. Its life appears to be all enjoyment : so busy and so pleased...
Página 17 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Página 84 - It is difficult to describe the bewilderment and confusion of the bees of the bankrupt hive who had been absent at the time of the catastrophe, and who arrived from time to time, with full cargoes from abroad. At first they wheeled about in the air, in the place where the fallen tree had once reared its head, astonished at finding it all a vacuum.
Página 82 - ... bee. We had not been long in the camp, when a party set out in quest of a bee-tree ; and being curious to witness the sport, I gladly accepted an invitation to accompany them. The party was headed by a veteran...
Página 83 - Even a loud crack which announced the disrupture of the trunk, failed to divert their attention from the intense pursuit of gain ; at length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth. One of the hunters immediately ran up with a wisp of lighted hay as a defence against the bees.
Página 82 - ... and without a hat, straddled along at his heels, with a long rifle on his shoulder. To these succeeded half a dozen others, some with axes and some with rifles, for no one stirs far from the camp without his firearms, so as to be ready either for wild deer or wild Indian.
Página 83 - The latter, however, made no attack and sought no revenge ; they seemed stupefied by the catastrophe and unsuspicious of its cause, and remained crawling and buzzing about the ruins without offering us any molestation. Every one of the party now fell to, with spoon and hunting-knife, to scoop out the flakes of honey-comb with which the hollow trunk was stored.
Página 96 - Obedience : for so work the honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order * to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad...