Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 28, 2025
White clover, taken over there for pasture, did not seed in New Zealand until the honey-bee was imported in 1842, and later, as they could not seed red-clover without it, the colonists had to introduce the humble-bee, and the red-clover now also seeds freely and the imported farm-beasts have their accustomed food.
The true realist is such a man as Parent du Chatelet; exploring all that most tries the senses and the sentiments, and reporting all truthfully, but soberly, chastely, without needless circumstance, or picturesque embellishment, for a useful end, and not for a mere sensational effect. What a range of subjects from "The Problem" and "Uriel" and "Forerunners" to "The Humble-Bee" and "The Titmouse!"
A few brent, which took wing afar off, and a high-flying duck or two, were the sole wildings observed, save a big humble-bee which droned around our boat for an instant, then darted off again. Even fish seemed to be anything but plentiful. That night's camp was hurriedly made in a hummocky fastness of pine and birch, where we found few comfortable bedding-places.
It seems scarcely credible that all this can take place each summer in the same way in Grinnell Land, at 82° N., especially as the access to food must be more limited than it is with us. The development of the humble-bee colony must surely be quite different there.
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.
It is a fairy sound as though Mustard-seed were in the hall. Or it might be Pease-blossom rousing up Cobweb in the play, to repel the red-hipped humble-bee. It is so slight a tapping that if I sleep with even one ear inside the covers I will not hear it. The little lad stands in the dim passage to greet me, fully dressed, to reproach me with my tardiness.
"It is the weasel," said the owl. "The weasel is not here." Kapchack frowned and looked as black as thunder, and a dead silence fell upon the council. "If it please your majesty," said the humble-bee, presently coming to the front. "If it please your majesty, the weasel " "It does not please me," said Kapchack. But the humble-bee began again: "If it please your majesty "
"Mamma always says, 'When I was a little girl, and so does Aunt Louie, and so does everybody; and I 'm tired of hearing about it, so there!" The humble-bee gave his gorgeous waistcoat a pull which settled it more smoothly over his stout person, and remarked shortly,
That great humble-bee takes it leisurely enough as she goes lumbering along, poking her head into the larkspurs, and remaining so long in each you might almost think she had fallen asleep. The brown hive-bee on the other hand, moves busily and quickly among the stocks, sweet peas, and mignonette.
We have further to suppose, but this is no difficulty, that after hexagonal prisms have been formed by the intersection of adjoining spheres in the same layer, she can prolong the hexagon to any length requisite to hold the stock of honey; in the same way as the rude humble-bee adds cylinders of wax to the circular mouths of her old cocoons.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking