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Bombus stood solitary and alone under a bare maple-tree, chuckling to himself in an amused fashion and, it must be confessed, in a spiteful. "It 'll be a good lesson for her. She deserves it," he said to himself; and Betty seemed to hear him, though she was by this time far away.
The mandibles also are not, like those of Bombus, trowel-shaped for architectural purposes, but acutely triangular, and are probably not used in building. This bee is as large as, and some allied exotic species are often considerably larger than, the Humble bee, but not clothed with such dense hairs. We have received from Mr.
At last in spite of Josiah's onwillingness I sent for Doctor Bombus. He come and took his wrist in hisen and Josiah sez kinder mad actin': "What do you want to feel of my polt for? My polt beats all right!" He looked at his tongue, Josiah stickin' it out as if he wuz makin' a face at him.
"I only meant, sir," she stammered, "I only meant I did n't think you were very humble, because you seemed very proud about the place being yours. I thought you were 'stuck up, as my brother says." "Stuck up? Where?" queried Mr. Bombus, anxiously. "Pray don't make such unpleasant insinuations. They quite set my heart to throbbing.
Two humble-bees, Bombus thoracicus and B. violaceus, are found on the pampas; the first, with a primrose yellow thorax, and the extremity of the abdomen bright rufous, slightly resembles the English B. terrestris; the rarer species, which is a trifle smaller than the first, is of a uniform intense black, the body having the appearance of velvet, the wings being of a deep violaceous blue.
He is on the way to become like the loud-buzzing, bouncing Bombus who combines conceited illusions enough to supply several patients in a lunatic asylum with the freedom to show himself at large in various forms of print.
I call it Manse because it is a man's. It is perfectly plain. If it was a woman's, I 'd say so." "Well, I don't think you 're much of a humble-bee " began Betty, and then caught herself up short and stopped. Mr. Bombus gave her a severe look from under his three-cornered hat, but did not reply at once, and they advanced on their way for some little time in silence.
Bombus, difference of the sexes in. Bombycidae, coloration of; pairing of the; colours of. Bombycilla carolinensis, red appendages of. Bombyx cynthia, proportion of the sexes in; pairing of. Bombyx mori, difference of size of the male and female cocoons of; pairing of. Bombyx Pernyi, proportion of sexes of. Bombyx Yamamai, M. Personnat on; proportion of sexes of.
F. Smith, that the male ants of several species are black, the females being testaceous. In the family of Bees, especially in the solitary species, as I hear from the same entomologist, the sexes often differ in colour. The males are generally the brighter, and in Bombus as well as in Apathus, much more variable in colour than the females.
"But," insisted Betty, "it was August when I first saw you, a few hours ago, and " "Yes, then it was August," assented Mr. Bombus; "but we 've got beyond that. We 're in By-and-by. Did n't you hear your mother say it would be October by and by, and it is October. Time is jogging on, back there in the world; but we beat him, you see, and are safe and sound far ahead of him in By-and-by.
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