. The bee people. Bees. The New Oiieen. 153 send the drones to the happy hunting grounds. Whether they are sorry about it or not I do not know; but, in any event, they fall upon their poor brothers and sting them to death, or else drive them from t%&^ the hive, where they soon die from cold, exposure, and hunger. In late summer you will some- times see a disconsolate drone sit- ting on a flower, very likely grieving at the bitterness of his lot. Miss Apis, it seems to us very cruel of you to treat your broth- ers so. ^ But we must remember that bees are not people, and that what would be v
. The bee people. Bees. The New Oiieen. 153 send the drones to the happy hunting grounds. Whether they are sorry about it or not I do not know; but, in any event, they fall upon their poor brothers and sting them to death, or else drive them from t%&^ the hive, where they soon die from cold, exposure, and hunger. In late summer you will some- times see a disconsolate drone sit- ting on a flower, very likely grieving at the bitterness of his lot. Miss Apis, it seems to us very cruel of you to treat your broth- ers so. ^ But we must remember that bees are not people, and that what would be very wicked in us may be perfectly right in them. T-. 1 1_ 1 1 A disconsolate The worker-bees labor very drone. hard through the summer, so that some- times they wear themselves out in a few weeks, and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Morley, Margaret Warner, 1858- [from old catalog]. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and company
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