. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. -*?—??'^tA^fc* TH15 31MERICSr« BEE J©'tJRHSI<. 757 IVonien and Uees. 'Tin a fact that can never be questioned, However absurd it may sound, TLat twlxt women and bees a resemblance Most wonderful is to be found. They have both of tbera "combB," that Is certain, And In energy neither are lax : And though honey to both is delicious. They are both now and then in a " ; A wife full of cares economic Is roo^t like an industrious bee ; And the waist of a wasp on a lady Is souietbinp delightful to sec—Judy. Rapid and Tireless ^Vork.
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. -*?—??'^tA^fc* TH15 31MERICSr« BEE J©'tJRHSI<. 757 IVonien and Uees. 'Tin a fact that can never be questioned, However absurd it may sound, TLat twlxt women and bees a resemblance Most wonderful is to be found. They have both of tbera "combB," that Is certain, And In energy neither are lax : And though honey to both is delicious. They are both now and then in a " ; A wife full of cares economic Is roo^t like an industrious bee ; And the waist of a wasp on a lady Is souietbinp delightful to sec—Judy. Rapid and Tireless ^Vork.—Con- cerning the work performed by bees and wasps, Susan Power, in Vlck's Magazine, writes as follows: Early as a man of science may be, Sir Joliii Lubboclt entering his study a tew minutes alter four in the mornin};, found a wasp already at worl£ on the honey set out of the window. Bees and wasps suck all the honey from flowers and sweets they can carry, fly bacli lo the hive, store it, and come bacli directly tor another supply. The wasp in question liept at work with- out a moment's rest until 7:46 in the even- ing, making a day of sixteen hours. The bee bf nan at 5; in the morninjj, and also left otf earlier than the wasp. Each visit Jrom the honey to the hive took about six minutes, and it made ten visits an hour, and a hundred in the day. The wasp made sixty visits between 4:13 in the morning and 6 minutes past r3 at noon, for Sir .Joh n timed them all, and gives a table exact to the minute of each return to the honey on the Sill. Sir wasp must have strayed to visit flowers sometimes, or to have a flight by the way, for his time varies from live to ten and 20 minutes between visits, which were kept up till dusk. This was in autumn. In summer they make overtime, and work late in the long English twilights, which are clear till after 9 o'clock. In fine weather, bees often visit more than 20 flowers in a minute, and so carefully do they economize the sunny hours
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